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Messina, Richard – 2001
This paper describes how a fourth grade class at a Canadian laboratory school used an approach to knowledge building that had students participating as intentional learners as they specialized in interest groups for their study of light. It examines how, later in the year, the goal of building collective knowledge became the focus for this group…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Creative Thinking, Elementary School Science