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SUMMARY:Designing tools to facilitate teacher-led discussions in the digit
 alized school. - Dr Ingvill Rasmussen\, Associate Professor\, Department o
 f Education\, University of Oslo
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:Textbooks have in recent years lost their supreme position in 
 Norwegian teaching\, and are today supplemented with texts retrieved from 
 the Internet and other computer-based resources. This development has crea
 ted a situation where students increasingly need to make sense and integra
 te information from different types of texts\, often having to deal with c
 ontradictory information presented though different modalities. For studen
 ts this is a learning situation that is especially challenging\, and that 
 seems to intensify differences between individuals. Research has highlight
 ed the importance of teachers using classroom discussion to help students 
 make sense of the information they encounter individually. But it is a maj
 or challenge for teachers to relate whole-class discussion to students’ 
 individual computer-based activities. \n\nMotivated by these contemporary 
 challenges\, I will describe studies in which my colleagues and I\, togeth
 er with teachers\, have designed new technologies to include students on-g
 oing interpretations (represented in microblogs) into whole-class\, teache
 r-led discussions. The blogs\, written by students on tablets\, can be pro
 jected on to a large screen/whiteboard. This sharing allows teachers to gu
 ide their students’ construction of knowledge productively. Microbloggin
 g is increasingly popular (i.e. Twitter) and is a format that has the pote
 ntial to encourage participation\, even of students who may not otherwise 
 be active in class. The results show that even though some of the students
  did not use the microblogs\, the technology-supported whole-class discuss
 ion encouraged the learning of even reluctant bloggers.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, (Rm
  GS4)\, Donald McIntyre Building)
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