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In our international collaboration with SRI International, we have taken GroupScribbles (GS) to schools in Singapore. GS is a lightweight technology which can be used in a live classroom to support face-to-face group and class collaboration. We adopt a design-research approach in our school-based work as we seek to address complex problems in real classroom contexts in collaboration with practitioners. With the teachers we worked with in three schools, over the past two years, we have co-designed more than one hundred lessons in the subjects of mathematics, science, and Chinese language learning. All the lessons have been enacted in classrooms, and tons of data collected. Different diverse perspectives of our work have emerged or are starting to emerge: comparing use of GS with its other alternatives, building up capacity of teachers to design and manage collaborative activities in the classroom, building up collaborative communities amongst the students in the classroom, collating the repertoire of collaborative patterns that have emerged, analysing how small groups of students collaborate and make meaning, understanding the affordances of such a generic technology and developing new functionalities, etc. We also hope to contribute to theory making in rapid collaborative learning, and develop a better understanding of the mechanisms that make a GS lesson work the way it does. Further dialogues with the CSCL community can contribute to the agenda of improving the praxis of research honed and informed by practice.

In this session, I plan to discuss how the computational media can enhance children’s embodied participation in learning situations and support their collaborative and cooperative activities. As I have been involved with the design and development of learning support systems in classroom settings, I think I can say something related to lessons learned through experiences of educational practices using our systems called CarettaKids∞, GENTORO∞ and so on.

Opening statement by Barbara Wasson

Opening statement by Masanori Sugimoto

Opening statement by Chee-Kit Looi

Opening statement by Ulrich Hoppe

Opening statement by Ricki Goldman

Opening statement by Hugo Fuks

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