TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation by grade 5 and 6 students of the promisingness of ideas in knowledge-building discourse
AU - Chen, Bodong
AU - Chuy, Maria
AU - Resendes, Monica
AU - Scardamalia, Marlene
AU - Bereiter, Carl
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Knowledge creation requires identifying and pursuing promising ideas-ideas that in their nascent form may not seem like much but that with development could grow into something big. The goal of our research is to develop a tool to explore the concept of promisingness and "big ideas," especially elementary school students' ability to make "promisingness judgments" regarding ideas in peer discourse. Toward this end we developed a "Big Ideas" tool to facilitate students' selection of the ideas they thought were promising in their online discourse. A study conducted in two Grade 5/6 classes examined the nature of "big ideas" selected from the online discourse of younger Grade 4 students. A preliminary analysis indicated that students tended to identify as promising important facts and questions in the Grade 4 discourse. This study will inform future work in designing tools, language, and techniques to facilitate the concept of promisingness.
AB - Knowledge creation requires identifying and pursuing promising ideas-ideas that in their nascent form may not seem like much but that with development could grow into something big. The goal of our research is to develop a tool to explore the concept of promisingness and "big ideas," especially elementary school students' ability to make "promisingness judgments" regarding ideas in peer discourse. Toward this end we developed a "Big Ideas" tool to facilitate students' selection of the ideas they thought were promising in their online discourse. A study conducted in two Grade 5/6 classes examined the nature of "big ideas" selected from the online discourse of younger Grade 4 students. A preliminary analysis indicated that students tended to identify as promising important facts and questions in the Grade 4 discourse. This study will inform future work in designing tools, language, and techniques to facilitate the concept of promisingness.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863392274
SN - 9780578091532
T3 - Connecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice: CSCL 2011 Conf. Proc. - Short Papers and Posters, 9th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conf.
SP - 571
EP - 575
BT - Connecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice
T2 - 9th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference: Connecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice, CSCL 2011
Y2 - 4 July 2011 through 8 July 2011
ER -