Collaborative Learning, Reasoning, and Technology

Twenty-three international academics, researchers, and practitioners contribute 14 chapters examining ways in which technology can be used to scaffold the development of critical reasoning skills, collaboration, and argumentation in both student and teachers at the K-12 and college levels. The importance of human and technological scaffolding to support such learning is also addressed. A sampling of topics: a developmental perspective on virtual scaffolding for learning in home and school contexts, fostering knowledge-creating communities, enabling participants in online forums to learn from each other, planning and coordinating activities in collaborative learning, and effects of collaboration and argumentation on learning from web pages. For researchers and practitioners. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR