Chen, Wenli

介绍了一种基于三益模型的协作脚本是如何被 然科学课上的一组学生所采用的。协作脚本被置于AppleTree 系统中,学生们经历了 4 个阶段的协作学 活动: 个体构建、组内构建、组间评分和组内提炼。共有 33 名新加坡中四年级学生参与了这项研究。对学生的行为和认知进行定量和定性分析,解释了学生对协作脚本的脚本的使用情况以及影呴协作脚本使用的因素。学生的概念知识水平、课堂文化和时间是影呴学生使用协作脚本的重要因素。

A total of seven scholars were invited to provide commentaries to the paper on the IDC experimental schoolin Taiwan. We collated their commentaries below, arranged in alphabetical order of the authors’ last names. We acknowledge and appreciate the excellent points raised by the commentators regarding the current and future directions of IDC Theory and the experimental school. We embrace their views and take heed of their suggestions to refine IDC Theory and our practices further.

The use of mobile technology can help extend children's learning spaces and enrich the learning experiences in their everyday lives where they move from one context to another, switching locations, social groups, technologies, and topics. When students have ubiquitous access to mobile devices with full connectivity, the in-situ use of the mobile devices in different contexts may allow students to make connections to what they learn in the classroom with their daily life experiences outside the classroom. This article proposes mobile technology supported seamless learning to illustrate how learning occurs seamlessly across time and places mediated by mobile devices. The authors' approaches to nurturing a seamless learning environment are also discussed.

This paper examines the effect of a scripted peer-rating procedure for collaborative knowledge improvement in a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment. The context of the study was in pre-service teacher education. Participants underwent two rounds of computer-supported collaborative lesson design (CSCLD) guided by the five-phase Spiral Model of Collaborative Knowledge Improvement (SMCKI) script. The intergroup peer-rating phase (phase 3 of SMCKI) provided opportunities for participants to view and critique lesson ideas of other design groups. To ensure the quality of peer-rating, the rating procedure was micro-scripted so that the issues of social loafing, the bias in opinion, and avoiding criticism in the attempts to maintain harmony in the Asian culture norm can be averted. The findings show that the micro-scripted intergroup peer-rating bring forth quality feedback. Results also reveal that the feedback helped develop the pre-service teachers' TP A CK competencies in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) design, indicating that micro-scripted peer-rating was effective in supporting collaborative knowledge improvement.

This paper presents how a collaboration script informed by the Funnel Model was appropriated by a class of students in a secondary science class lesson. Based on the script, a class of 33 tenth grade students enacted four stages of a technology-supported collaborative learning activity: individual construction, intra-group construction, inter-group rating, and intra-group refining. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of students' behaviors and perceptions were conducted to identify and explain how students appropriated the collaboration script.

Computer-based writing (CBW) has become integral in language education, enabling personalised learning and online collaboration. In Singapore, CBW is being introduced in Chinese Language (CL) classes, yet challenges persist, particularly for students using the phonetic-based pinyin input method. This study investigated the impact of partially replacing paper-and-pen-based writing (PPBW) with CBW in primary schools. Using mixed-effects modeling, we compared post-CBW and post-PPBW scores, considering CL achievement levels. Results indicated CBW's positive influence on writing quality regardless of prior competence. Furthermore, CBW significantly benefits low and medium-achieving students' performance. Typing speed and handwriting speed are influential for these students, while different writing strategies play distinct roles. Informed by the findings, we propose an online writing community platform, WeeWrite, incorporating generative AI to enhance CL CBW skills, offering personalised and collaborative learning experiences.

How should and how do primary students learn about environmental issues and be actually involved in actions to participate in Reduce, Reuse or Recycle (3Rs) things that people usually throw away? This study uses an inquiry-based experiential learning approach to involve students in investigating how wastes are produced and what impact 3Rs can have on protecting the environment. By taking advantage of mobile learning technologies, i.e. PDAs and their inter-connectivity with the Internet, this study tries to answer the following questions: (a) How to design inquiry-based learning activities that make use of mobile learning technologies? (b) What are the student learning outcomes when using mobile technology integrated curricula? (c) How do teachers integrate mobile learning technologies for student-centered learning? Primary four teachers, Heads of Department of Science and IT, and students from six Singapore schools participated in the pilot study involving the National Environmental Agency (NEA) and a local supermarket chain store. We selected two classes each from two of the schools, and tracked student activities and learning trajectories. Field notes, surveys of student and teacher technology competence and attitude, pre- and post-tests of student understanding of 3Rs, target student and teacher interviews, audios of target group conversation, classroom videos and student artifacts, are collected and analyzed. Our preliminary results showed that students’ understanding of 3Rs was improved; they held positive attitude towards using PDAs in learning, and their skills in using PDAs was improved significantly.

This paper outlines an eclectic approach to assist juvenile Chinese as second language (L2) pupils in Singapore in developing linguistic-related micro-skills for writing. The recursive, bottom-up writing process requires the pupils to collaboratively carry out “word/phrase pooling”, “sentence making”, “paragraph writing” and “outlining” on wiki, and eventually composing their essays individually. The intention is to fill up the gap between the current-traditional product-oriented approach and the more cognitively demanding processoriented approach, that is, juvenile L2 learners' limited linguistic and cognitive skills that would hinder them from writing proper essays, not to mention carrying out process writing. The results of our pilot study show that the target pupils' micro-skills for writing were improved significantly due to emergent peer coaching. There is also an implication that through such peer coaching activities, the perceived challenge of pupils' individual differences in linguistic proficiency could be turned into an advantage for motivating pupils' collaboration in learning.

Cognizant that a critical 21st century skill is the capacity to do rapid collaborative knowledge building (RCKB) in a dynamic setting, we are interested to introduce practices for RCKB into classrooms. Through RCKB, students also have opportunities to learn and articulate their understanding in a deeper way than traditional classroom lessons. We describe a research project in which together with teachers, we initiated lesson activities that enact RCKB for science lessons. Towards that goal, we envisaged 10 principles for RCKB in the design of lessons, and worked with teachers to co-design lesson plans and apply these principles. Reporting on our initial pilot study, we document some effects of our intervention package in terms of traditional and non-traditional assessments of learning gains. We started with 6 weeks of initiation activities (a.k.a. “Paper Scribbles” or PS sessions) in the classroom using sticky paper notes, which was followed by another 10 weeks of activities in a school computer laboratory with the use of the Group Scribbles (GS) software technology. We share our lessons learned in this study, discuss implications for socio-technical instructional design of successful rapid knowledge building activities in the classroom, and suggest avenues for improvement and further research.