NDLI: Advancing knowledge‐building discourse through judgments of promising ideas

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Author	Chen, Bodong Scardamalia, Marlene Bereiter, Carl
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Evaluating promisingness of ideas is an important but underdeveloped aspect of knowledge building. The goal of this research was to examine the extent to which Grade 3 students could make promisingness judgments to facilitate knowledge-building discourse. A Promising Ideas Tool was added to Knowledge Forum software to better support knowledge‐building discourse. The tool helped students select promising ideas from their group’s written online discourse and then aggregate and display selections to support collective decision making regarding most promising directions for subsequent work. Students knew in advance that their selections would influence the direction of group work, and through iterations of procedures came to better understand how individually selected ideas would become the focus of class discussions and next knowledge‐building efforts. The basic design was repeated over two cycles of promising-idea selections, discussions, and follow-up activity to refine ideas. Qualitative and quantitative results indicated that students as young as 8 years of age could make promisingness judgments benefiting their community. Through use of the Promising Ideas Tool and discussion based on results from its use, Grade 3 students achieved significantly greater knowledge advances than students not engaged in promisingness judgments and discussions.
Starting Page	345
Ending Page	366
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15561607
Journal	International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15561615
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-11-14
Publisher Institution	International Society of the Learning Sciences
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Promisingness Knowledge building Design-based research Collaborative discourse Educational Technology Learning & Instruction User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Computers and Education Cognitive Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Human-Computer Interaction

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