TY - GEN
T1 - Students' intuitive understanding of promisingness and promisingness judgments to facilitate knowledge advancement
AU - Chen, Bodong
AU - Scardamalia, Marlene
AU - Resendes, Monica
AU - Chuy, Maria
AU - Bereiter, Carl
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The ability to identify promising ideas is an important but obscure and undeveloped aspect of knowledge building. The goal of this research was to examine the extent to which young students can make promisingness judgments and, as a result, engage in more effective knowledge building. Toward this end we embedded a design experiment in a Grade 3 classroom. In this experiment students were engaged in discussion and reflection of the concept of promisingness and used a Promising Ideas tool to identify promising ideas in their written online discourse. They used the tool for two refinements of idea selections to focus ongoing community dialogue. Results suggest that students as young as 8 years of age can make promisingness judgments that facilitate knowledge advancement in their work. These results inform future work in classroom interventions and tool development to promote promisingness judgments in collaborative knowledge building.
AB - The ability to identify promising ideas is an important but obscure and undeveloped aspect of knowledge building. The goal of this research was to examine the extent to which young students can make promisingness judgments and, as a result, engage in more effective knowledge building. Toward this end we embedded a design experiment in a Grade 3 classroom. In this experiment students were engaged in discussion and reflection of the concept of promisingness and used a Promising Ideas tool to identify promising ideas in their written online discourse. They used the tool for two refinements of idea selections to focus ongoing community dialogue. Results suggest that students as young as 8 years of age can make promisingness judgments that facilitate knowledge advancement in their work. These results inform future work in classroom interventions and tool development to promote promisingness judgments in collaborative knowledge building.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876270303
SN - 9780578106410
T3 - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of Learning, ICLS 2012 - Proceedings
SP - 111
EP - 118
BT - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
T2 - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of Learning, ICLS 2012
Y2 - 2 July 2012 through 6 July 2012
ER -