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The Role of Exploratory Talk in Classroom Search Engine Tasks
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Knight, Simon; Mercer, Neil – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015
While search engines are commonly used by children to find information, and in classroom-based activities, children are not adept in their information seeking or evaluation of information sources. Prior work has explored such activities in isolated, individual contexts, failing to account for the collaborative, discourse-mediated nature of search…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Classroom Communication, Cooperation, Information Seeking
Collaborative Epistemic Discourse in Classroom Information-Seeking Tasks
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Knight, Simon; Mercer, Neil – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2017
The authors discuss the relationship between information seeking and epistemic beliefs--beliefs about the source, structure, complexity and stability of knowledge--in the context of collaborative information-seeking discourses. They further suggest that both information seeking, and epistemic cognition research agendas, have suffered from a lack…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Epistemology, Beliefs, Cooperative Learning
In the Mind and in the Technology: The Vicarious Presence of the Teacher in Pupil's Learning of Science in Collaborative Group Activity at the Interactive Whiteboard
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Warwick, Paul; Mercer, Neil; Kershner, Ruth; Staarman, Judith Kleine – Computers & Education, 2010
The focus of research into the use of the interactive whiteboard (IWB) in the classroom has been largely in relation to teacher-pupil interaction, with very little consideration of its possible use as a tool for pupils' collaborative endeavour. This paper is based upon an ESRC-funded project, which considers how pupils use the interactive…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Group Activities, Active Learning, Visual Aids
Can the Interactive Whiteboard Support Young Children's Collaborative Communication and Thinking in Classroom Science Activities?
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Kershner, Ruth; Mercer, Neil; Warwick, Paul; Kleine Staarman, Judith – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2010
Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have been widely introduced to English primary schools (5-11 years) in the last decade and this has generated much research interest. In the past, research has focused on IWB-use in teacher-led sessions, attending particularly to the nature of teacher-pupil interaction at the IWB and the apparent motivational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Activities, Group Activities, Educational Resources
Teaching Children How to Use Language to Solve Maths Problems
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Mercer, Neil; Sams, Claire – Language and Education, 2006
It is often claimed that working and talking with partners while carrying out maths activities is beneficial to students' learning and the development of their mathematical understanding. However, observational research has shown that primary school children often do not work productively in group-based classroom activities, with the implication…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Mathematics Education, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
Children's Talk and the Development of Reasoning in the Classroom.
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Mercer, Neil; Wegerif, Rupert; Dawes, Lyn – British Educational Research Journal, 1999
Evaluates a teaching program called TRAC (Talk, Reasoning, and Computers) that is used for scaffolding children's effective use of language as a tool for reasoning and collaborative activity. Finds that using the TRAC program can increase the amount of exploratory talk used by children working together in the classroom. (CMK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Group Activities