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Supporting Collaborative Inquiry during a Biology Field Trip with Mobile Peer-to-Peer Tools for Learning: A Case Study with K-12 Learners
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Laru, Jari; Jarvela, Sanna; Clariana, Roy B. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
This study explores how collaborative inquiry learning can be supported with multiple scaffolding agents in a real-life field trip context. In practice, a mobile peer-to-peer messaging tool provided meta-cognitive and procedural support, while tutors and a nature guide provided more dynamic scaffolding in order to support argumentative discussions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Field Trips, Persuasive Discourse
Social Patterns in Mobile Technology Mediated Collaboration among Members of the Professional Distance Education Community
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Laru, Jari; Jarvela, Sanna – Educational Media International, 2008
The aim of this study was to identify social patterns in mobile technology mediated collaboration among distributed members of the professional distance education community. Ten participants worked for 12 weeks designing a master's programme in information sciences. The participants' mobile technology usage activity and interview data were first…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Distance Education, Network Analysis, Cooperation
Qualitative Features of Teacher-Student Interaction in a Technologically Rich Learning Environment Based on a Cognitive Apprenticeship Model.
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Jarvela, Sanna – Machine-Mediated Learning, 1996
Describes a study that analyzed the qualitative features of learning interaction during classroom teaching and learning when mediating modern technological thinking and problem-solving skills for Finnish seventh graders. The learning interaction was organized according to the principles of a cognitive apprenticeship model and applied to a…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
The Cognitive Apprenticeship Model in a Technologically Rich Learning Environment: Interpreting the Learning Interaction.
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Jarvela, Sanna – Learning and Instruction, 1995
Qualitative features of teacher-student interaction during classroom teaching and learning while modern technological thinking and problem-solving skills were mediated were studied for 22 seventh-grade boys in Finland. Reciprocal understanding between teacher and student were necessary in order for the teacher's special instructional assistance to…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
Socio-emotional Orientation as a Mediating Variable in the Teaching-Learning Interaction: Implications for Instructional Design.
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Jarvela, Sanna; Lehtinen, Erno; Salonen, Pekka – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2000
Presents a theoretical framework for analyzing students' social, emotional, and motivational interpretations and demonstrates the application of the framework in two studies involving 8 12-year-old boys and 14 12-year-old boys in which such interpretations were analyzed in a cognitive apprenticeship-based technologically rich learning environment.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Emotional Response, Evaluation Methods
Developing Technology-Supported Inquiry Practices in Two Comprehensive School Classrooms.
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Salovaara, Hanna; Salo, Piritta; Rahikainen, Marjaana; Lipponen, Lasse; Jarvela, Sanna – 2001
There are indications that Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and accompanying inquiry-based pedagogical practices can enhance student learning. The aim of this study is to experiment CSCL and inquiry-based approach in real classroom situations and to analyze students' approaches in inquiry process in terms of cognitive and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning