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Lamon, Mary; Laferriere, Therese – Education Canada, 2003
A review of the role of prior knowledge, metacognition, and intentionality in learning culminates in an example of how knowledge building--the community construction of new knowledge through theory construction and revision--works in a Canadian elementary science class. Comparing theories on the "public forum" of networked software…
Descriptors: Brain, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students