Towards Knowledge Building: From Facts to Explanations in Primary Students' Computer Mediated Discourse |
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| Authors: | Lipponen Lasse |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland;(2) Faculty of Education, University of Turku, Finland |
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| Abstract: | Educational institutions are required to find new pedagogical and cognitive models and practices to cope with the challenges
of an emerging knowledge society. In creating a theoretical and practical model for future education, Scardamalia and Bereiter
have proposed the concept of knowledge building. An early implementation of this idea was in the networked classroom software
and ancillary structures known as Computer-Supported Intentional Learning Environment (CSILE). The present study aimed to
explore the indicators of knowledge building in computer-mediated discourse among 26 11-year-old Finnish students. The data
were collected during a four-week course on Energy, and consisted of students' postings stored in the CSILE database. Analysis
revealed three pedagogically and cognitively different modes of discourse: social-oriented, fact-oriented, and explanation-oriented.
These modes differed essentially from each other in the nature of the knowledge which students constructed during discourse
and in the object and focus of students' communication. During explanation-oriented discourse, students actively used abstract
and scientific concepts and the objects of their comments were theories, ideas and methods of research. Such activity is a
component of knowledge building.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | collaborative learning computer-mediated discourse knowledge building knowledge-building environments |
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