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Co-designing curricula to promote collaborative knowledge construction in secondary school science

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Vanessa L. Peters,

James D. SlottaAuthors Info & Claims

CSCL'09: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - Volume 1

Pages 204 - 213

Published: 08 June 2009 Publication History

Abstract

We describe a two-year study of a rich secondary science curriculum that was codesigned in close partnership with teachers, technology specialists and even school administrators. The goal of the research was to provide empirical support for a recent model of learning and instruction that blends the two perspectives of knowledge communities and scaffolded inquiry. A design-oriented method was employed, where the first iteration of the curriculum was evaluated in terms of its fit to the model, as well as its impact on student learning. Based on a set of design recommendations, a much more substantive curriculum was developed for the second iteration, leading to rich measures of student collaboration and deep understanding of the targeted science concepts. This paper describes our co-design process, which allowed teachers to lead the curriculum design and classroom enactment while researchers contributed design guidelines according to the theoretical model.

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Cited By

Lucas MGunawardena CMoreira A(2014)Assessing social construction of knowledge onlineComputers in Human Behavior10.1016/j.chb.2013.07.05030(574-582)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.chb.2013.07.050
Raes ASchellens TDe Wever BGoldman SPellegrino J(2010)The impact of web-based collaborative inquiry for science learning in secondary educationProceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - Volume 110.5555/1854360.1854454(736-741)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1854360.1854454

Index Terms

Co-designing curricula to promote collaborative knowledge construction in secondary school science
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Collaborative learning
  2. Enterprise computing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula
    2. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Systems analysis and design
        Systems development

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Lucas MGunawardena CMoreira A(2014)Assessing social construction of knowledge onlineComputers in Human Behavior10.1016/j.chb.2013.07.05030(574-582)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.chb.2013.07.050
Raes ASchellens TDe Wever BGoldman SPellegrino J(2010)The impact of web-based collaborative inquiry for science learning in secondary educationProceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - Volume 110.5555/1854360.1854454(736-741)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1854360.1854454

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