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Supporting Teachers in Orchestrating CSCL Classrooms

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Teachers face numerous problems in orchestrating technology-enhanced classrooms, especially when dealing with complex pedagogies such as collaborative learning. Designing and putting in practice computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) lesson plans requires an extensive knowledge both in pedagogy and technology, which needs to match teachers’ beliefs and goals. This paper and the associated keynote talk deals with enhanced and shared teacher practices, as well as the support that may be provided in order to achieve the goals of effective and sustainable creation and use of CSCL lesson plans or scripts. Some illustrating examples are drawn from the GSIC/EMIC research work in the past decade, as well as other initiatives in the quest for appropriate mediating artifacts that may support the complex lifecycle of CSCL scripts.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to acknowledge the contributions of the GSIC/EMIC group at the University of Valladolid, Spain and especially E. Villasclaras, J.I. Asensio, D. Hernández, L.P. Prieto, S. Villagrá, and I.M. Jorrín. Special thanks to the teachers and students of the “Ana de Austria” primary school at Cigales, Spain, as well as all other participants in the workshops and courses at University of Valladolid, Spain and other universities around Spain. The work presented in this paper has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (TIN2008-03023/TSI) and the regional Government of Castilla and León (VA106A08 and VA107A08).

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Dimitriadis, Y.A. (2012). Supporting Teachers in Orchestrating CSCL Classrooms. In: Jimoyiannis, A. (eds) Research on e-Learning and ICT in Education. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1083-6_6

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