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Title: | Embedded Phenomena for Knowledge Communities: Supporting complex practices and interactions within a community of inquiry in the elementary science classroom |
Authors: | Cober, Rebecca Fong, Cresencia Gnoli, Alessandro Silva, Brenda López Lui, Michelle Madeira, Cheryl McCann, Colin Moher, Tom Slotta, Jim Tissenbaum, Mike |
Issue Date: | Jul-2012 |
Publisher: | International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) |
Citation: | Cober, R., Fong, C., Gnoli, A., Silva, B. L., Lui, M., Madeira, C., McCann, C., Moher, T., Slotta, J., & Tissenbaum, M. (2012). Embedded Phenomena for Knowledge Communities: Supporting complex practices and interactions within a community of inquiry in the elementary science classroom. In van Aalst, J., Thompson, K., Jacobson, M. J., & Reimann, P. (Eds.), The Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012) – Volume 2, Short Papers, Symposia, and Abstracts (pp. 64-71). Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. |
Abstract: | The work presented here is a product of a collaborative effort to develop a knowledge community and inquiry curriculum for elementary science, where students engage in extended investigations of simulated scientific phenomena presumed to occupy the physical space of their classrooms. By their immersive nature, these "embedded phenomena" lend themselves to a collective epistemology, and hence to new forms of learning and instruction that depart from the conventional didactic approach. The symposium centers on the design and enactment of a seven-week elementary school ecosystems unit, WallCology, developed in close collaboration with partner teachers and school administrators during summer and fall of 2011. Six posters highlight different facets of our effort, including descriptions of the immersive environment, the instructional narrative, the inquiry support technologies, the role of aggregate representations, discourse processes, and the classroom experiences of the 37 students and two teachers who participated in the unit. |
URI: | https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/icls2012.2.64 https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/2385 |
Appears in Collections: | ICLS 2012 |
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