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Productive Failure in Mathematical Problem Solving
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Kapur, Manu – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
This paper reports on a quasi-experimental study comparing a "productive failure" instructional design (Kapur in Cognition and Instruction 26(3):379-424, 2008) with a traditional "lecture and practice" instructional design for a 2-week curricular unit on rate and speed. Seventy-five, 7th-grade mathematics students from a…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Foreign Countries, Lecture Method, Problem Solving
What Do Students Do in a F2F CSCL Classroom? The Optimization of Multiple Communications Modes
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Chen, Wenli; Looi, Chee-Kit; Tan, Sini – Computers & Education, 2010
This exploratory study analyzes how students use different communication modes to share information, negotiate meaning and construct knowledge in the process of doing a group learning activity in a Primary Grade 5 blended learning environment in Singapore. Small groups of students interacted face-to-face over a computer-mediated communication…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Interaction Process Analysis, Interaction, Foreign Countries
Supporting Mobile Collaborative Activities through Scaffolded Flexible Grouping
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Boticki, Ivica; Looi, Chee-Kit; Wong, Lung-Hsiang – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
Within the field of Mobile Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (mCSCL), we are interested in exploring the space of collaborative activities that enable students to practice communication, negotiation and decision-making skills. Collaboration is via learning activities that circumvent the constraints of fixed seating or locations of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning
Four or More Eyes Are Better Than Two: Using Cooperative Learning To Maximize the Success of Group Activities in Reading.
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Jacobs, George M. – 1997
An essay on use of cooperative learning (CL) techniques in the second language classroom looks at the benefits of CL, examines the current status of their use, particularly in Singapore, and makes recommendations for implementing CL techniques in second language reading instruction. The discussion begins with a review of literature on group…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies