Common Knowledge: Iterative Design, Scripting, and Orchestration of Inquiry Discourse in Elementary Science

• In Event: 52.062 - Science and Technology Learning and Teaching and the Understanding of Complex Systems and Social Networking Systems

Abstract

The combination of tablets, shared displays, and an interactive whiteboard (IWB) can be used to support productive astronomy inquiry across a classroom’s social planes. This paper reports on the design and classroom trials of CK – a pedagogical and technological innovation that supports agile teacher orchestration of blended inquiry discourse, and scaffolds the community through phases of inquiry and interest groupings. Using tablets, students contribute to a community knowledge base that is publicly visible from the interactive whiteboard (IWB). The IWB visualizes the community’s idea flow and enables members to sort their ideas along socially negotiated categories. We present iterative technological design analysis culminating in this third iteration, and discuss the 3R (Reflect, Refocus, Release) teacher orchestration cycle that emerged.

Authors

• Cresencia Fong, University of Toronto - OISE

• Rebecca M. Quintana, University of Toronto

• Richard Messina, University of Toronto - OISE

• Tom Moher, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Julia Murray, Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study

• Ben Peebles, University of Toronto - OISE

• James D. Slotta, University of Toronto