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Gelmini-Hornsby, Giulia; Ainsworth, Shaaron; O'Malley, Claire – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011
Developing shared understanding is essential to productive collaboration where a product is jointly constructed. This is especially true when the different collaborators' contributions need to build coherently on one another, as, for example, when making a story together. This study investigated whether encouraging children to engage in discussion…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Young Children, Story Telling, Questioning Techniques
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Schwarz, Baruch B.; Schur, Yaron; Pensso, Haim; Tayer, Naama – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011
Changing practices in schools is a very complex endeavor. This paper is about new practices we prompted to foster collaboration and critical reasoning in science classrooms: the presentation of pictures representing different perspectives, small group synchronous argumentation, and moderation of synchronous argumentation. A CSCL tool helped in…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Perspective Taking, Concept Formation, Grade 8