Constructionist Collaborative Learning Mechanism Framework: Understanding Collaboration in Constructionist Tabletop Learning

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Abstract

This paper introduces the Constructionist Collaborative Learning Mechanism (CCLM) framework as a means for understanding modes of creative interaction in constructionist tabletop activities. Using one case study within an open-ended constructionist tabletop museum exhibit (named Oztoc) at a major metropolitan science center we show how participants engage in CCLM collaboration patterns to support sense making both within and across groups. We conclude by triangulating the collaborative discourse between two groups simultaneously engaging with the exhibit and the tabletop’s log data to show that the CCLM patterns not only supported “spontaneous” collaboration among participants, but that the collaboration resulted in advancements in the groups’ tinkering and artifact construction.

Authors

• Mike Tissenbaum, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Matthew W. Berland, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Leilah Lyons, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Rebecca Eydt

• Lauren Ann Wielgus, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Adam Mechtley, University of Wisconsin - Madison