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Instructional scaffolding

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Exploring a Handwriting Programming Language for Educational Robots

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Vaios Papaspyros, Melissa Anne Skweres, Taavet Kangur, Laura Mathex

Recently, introducing computer science and educational robots in compulsory education has received increasing attention. However, the use of screens in classrooms is often met with resistance, especially in primary school. To address this issue, this study ...

Springer, Cham2021

Imagining with and in Space: Structural support as a cognitive device in architectural education

Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Darío Negueruela Del Castillo, Aurélie Dupuis

In this paper, we will argue that the structure of the spatio-temporal pedagogical set-up and the elaboration of an evolutionary support for operations of cognition and imagination are powerful in transforming learning cultures. We develop this argument in ...

2020

Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Alberto Piatti

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

Social practices in teacher knowledge creation and innovation adoption: a large-scale study in an online instructional design community for inquiry learning

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Social practices are assumed to play an important role in the evolution of new teaching and learning methods. Teachers internalize knowledge developed in their communities through interactions with peers and experts while solving problems or co-creating ma ...

2020

What makes an online learning journal powerful for VET? Distinguishing productive usage patterns and effective learning strategies

Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Background: The current and future workforce is challenged to adapt to changing environments and become lifelong, self-regulated learners. Learning journals can regulate learning processes through scaffolding reflection on rich experiences. However, learni ...

2018

Learner-Computer Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma

Learner-Computer Interaction (LCI) research addresses the design, development and use of interactive technologies to support and amplify human learning. LCI is based on the rationale that learning while interacting with technology is a complex, multi-layer ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Wiki-LDA: A Mixed-Method Approach for Effective Interest Mining on Twitter Data

Xiao Pu

Learning analytics (LA) and Educational data mining (EDM) have emerged as promising technology-enhanced learning (TEL) research areas in recent years. Both areas deal with the development of methods that harness educational data sets to support the learnin ...

Scitepress2016

Children’s Peer Assessment and Self-disclosure in the Presence of an Educational Robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Shruti Chandra

Research in education has long established how children mutually influence and support each other's learning trajectories, eventually leading to the development and widespread use of learning methods based on peer activities. In order to explore children's ...

2016

Expanding Eye-Tracking Methods to Explain the Socio-Cognitive Effects of Shared Annotations

Andrea Mazzei

Social technologies are leading to transformations in education, by empowering the way learners connect to each other, by introducing new means for teaching and learning and by reshaping the way knowledge is delivered. Annotating texts is a learning strate ...

EPFL2013

Facilitating peer knowledge modeling: Effects of a knowledge awareness tool on collaborative learning outcomes and processes

Pierre Dillenbourg, Marc-Antoine Nüssli

We report an empirical study where we investigated the effects, on the collaborative outcomes and processes, of a cognition-related awareness tool providing learners with cues about their peer’s level of prior knowledge. Sixty-four university students part ...

Elsevier2011

The effects of animations on verbal interaction in computer supported collaborative learning

Pierre Dillenbourg

This paper focuses on the interaction patterns of learners studying in pairs who were provided with multimedia learning material. In a previous article, we reported that learning scores were higher for dyads of an ‘animations’ condition than for dyads of a ...

2008

From Mirroring to Guiding: A Review of State of the Art Technology for Supporting Collaborative Learning

Patrick Jermann

We review a representative selection of systems that support the management of collaborative learning interaction, and characterize them within a simple classification framework. The framework distinguishes between mirroring systems, which display basic ac ...

2005