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34.037 - Using Epistemic Tools to Support Reasoning, Student Agency, and Equity

Sat, April 6, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Floor: Lower Concourse, Sheraton Hall E

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

Abstract

There is growing interest in the affordances of knowledge-building or “epistemic” tools to deepen collaboration and learning in classrooms and in professional learning contexts. With the Common Core and NGSS, teachers are being asked to become facilitators of students’ intellectual work, guiding them to participate in public, collaborative, culturally responsive, and equitable knowledge building as they gain agency as active sensemakers and reasoners. Students are being asked to acquire these new practices as learning becomes a progressive, evidence-based, and collaborative knowledge-building process. Epistemic tools for both students and teachers take on new significance in supporting these shifts. Session posters will focus on research findings on multi-faceted epistemic tools used in classrooms, pre-service courses, and in new models of professional learning.

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