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A project on integrated ICT-use in
elementary school (10-12 year olds): www – site construction www – site consultation email
The kidNET team:
K. Th. Boersma, F. Janssen, B. de
Vries, J. M. Pieters, H. van der Meij,
M. van Graft, D. van Weelie & J. Zwiers
Presentation for ICO division ICT
21 januari, Twente University
Key points: Learning by designing Dialogic learning (read, write, talk) Functional use of ICT tools
Upper grades elementary school (ages 10-12)
Learning by designing: Create meaningful Context Create meaningful Task & Problem Provide Structured Freedom (e.g.,
guiding questions & paper dummies)
Site construction
Domain: Design & technology (no sites
for consultation)
Context: Your own messy room
Task & Problem: Design ‘cleaning robot’ in ‘jig-saw’ like teamwork – Report via site
Provisional findingsProvisional findings
Site construction
Technical skills (pc use) are hardly an obstacleSites did NOT invite exchanges with family and
friends (access obstacle)
Teamwork vital for articulation/reflection
Statistically significant improvement in domain knowledge (post-test with control group)
Statistically significant increase in domain-specific self-esteem of girls
Site consultation
Domain: BiologyTask & Problem: Redesign a bee orant populationScaffolding questions: Who am I? What
is my function? What do I need for that? What and who do I need in my surroundings?
Why did we design a portal?
Deficient typing skills & no monitoring Search engines yield
incomprehensible results for children
Why did we redesign our portal?
Portal should reflect domain structure Afford search by category Anchor route
Provisional findingsProvisional findings
Site consultation
Portal helped re-evaluate meaningfulness of certain questions
Portal + provisional answers strongly encouraged more meaningful searches -> less question drift
Context: Partner schools working on the same project with a shared time schedule (same task – same time)
Task & Problem: Design an airplane that can fly long and far
Main research question:
Is there interactional coherence? - conditions for functional email use- findings on email use
Email from group K
1. Hi Flying Children
2. You asked us how we construct our plane
3. which materials we are going to use
4. and how we will let it fly.
Email from group K, cont’d
5. We don’t know yet how we will construct it
6. but we think we’ll use kite-wood, plastic trays and maybe cloth.
7. How we will let it fly we don’t know yet
8. We apologize for knowing so little
Email from group K, cont’d.…11. Friday march 19th we went to the library.12. where we found siso numbers 659.2,
640.5, 659.6 13. maybe you can do something with it.…16. Which materials do you have17. And how will you let it fly?
K’s partner
1. Hello flying four
2. These are the answers to your questions.
3. We use triplex for the plane.
4. We throw it in the air.
5. We are going to stand on the climbing frame
6. and throw it away.
K’s partner
1. Hello flying four
2. These are the answers to your questions.
3. We use triplex for the plane.
4. We throw it in the air.
5. We are going to stand on the climbing frame
6. and throw it away.
K’s partner, cont’d7. We have a tip for you.8. You can go to a home centre9. and ask for cast-away wood….11. Would you please mention some
titles of books that you use.12. Because we don’t understand that
sisonumber at all.
Email – The CRS-Profile
Contextual dimension: Task – relevance Time – production time, view time, project
time Tools – physical, mental Setting – pedagogy, instructional design
approach, teacher roles Conditions – facilities, knowledge & skill
Email – The CRS-Profile
Rhetorical dimension: Frequency – number of emails,
exchange pattern Structure – size, macro-structure Grammar – speech acts,
communication threads, meta-tags
Email – The CRS-Profile
Semantic dimension: Topic – content Motivation – expression of affect,
valence
Provisional findingsProvisional findings
Extremely strong impact of turn-taking pattern
Talk about Domain & Communication dominates (email is not a chat box)
In due course emails have fewer positive expressions of affect
Findings … many things will go wrongFindings … many things will go wrong
Contact informationContact information
Hans van der Meij
Universiteit Twente
Faculteit Toegepaste Onderwijskunde
Afdeling Instructietechnologie
Postbus 217
7500 AE Enschede
http://www.kidnet.utwente.nl/kidnet/
