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Chang, Liang; Chen, Qianqian; Yang, Yuqin; Qian, Xuan – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
This study investigated whether elementary students could collectively advance a knowledge-building discourse through judgments of promisingness and epistemic reflection. Supported by the Promising Idea Tool and its accompanying pedagogical design, 32 grade six students were involved in judging the promisingness of their community ideas, refining…
Descriptors: Reflection, Epistemology, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
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Bernicot, J.; Goumi, A.; Bert-Erboul, A.; Volckaert-Legrier, O. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2014
The link between students' spelling level and their text-messaging practice gives rise to numerous questions from teachers, parents and the media. A corpus of 4524 text messages produced in daily-life situations by students in sixth and seventh grade (n?=?19, 11-12 years of age) was compiled. None of the participants had ever owned or used a…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Mediated Communication, Grade 6
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Zheng, Binbin; Lawrence, Joshua; Warschauer, Mark; Lin, Chin-Hsi – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2015
Individual writing and collaborative writing skills are important for academic success, yet are poorly taught in K-12 classrooms. This study examines how sixth-grade students (n = 257) taught by two teachers used Google Docs to write and exchange feedback. We used longitudinal growth models to analyze a large number of student writing samples…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing Skills, Collaborative Writing, Grade 6