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Ioannidou, Andri; Repenning, Alexander; Webb, David; Keyser, Diane; Luhn, Lisa; Daetwyler, Christof – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2010
Why has technology become prevalent in science education without fundamentally improving test scores or student attitudes? We claim that the core of the problem is "how" technology is being used. Technologies such as simulations are currently not used to their full potential. For instance, physiology simulations often follow textbooks by…
Descriptors: Socialization, Student Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Hygiene
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Kapur, Manu; Kinzer, Charles K. – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009
This study was designed as a confirmatory study of work on "productive failure" (Kapur, "Cognition and Instruction," 26(3), 379-424, 2008). N = 177, 11th-grade science students were randomly assigned to solve either well- or ill-structured problems in a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment without the provision of any…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Problem Solving, Grade 11, Hypothesis Testing