Establishing Project-Enhanced Classrooms Through Design
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چکیده
The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization Project is attempting to establish open-inquiry collaborative science projects as a classroom activity structure. This efforts are described from a design experiment perspective where social and material supports are strategically arranged to encourage this classroom evolution. Supports are provided to help teachers form community, teachers manage projects, and students accomplish projects. The community is geographically distributed and draws on widely distributed expertise. Logistical difficulties of coordinating the community are mainly addressed through the use of multi-media network applications. Through the network student mentors and collaboration facilitators are able to interact with remote classrooms.
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