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Fostering Students' Ability in "Defining Problems" on Socioscientific Issues through a CSCL-based Science Curriculum
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, Kobe University, Japan ; , University of Miyazaki, Japan ; , Kobe University, Japan ; , , , Shizuoka University, Japan ; , Oita University, Japan ; , , Sumiyoshi Elementary School Attached to Faculty of Human Development, Kobe University, Japan ; , University of Miyazaki, Japan

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Vienna, Austria ISBN 978-1-880094-65-5 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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We developed a CSCL-based science curriculum for fostering students' ability in "defining problems". During the lesson, sixth-grade students tackled problems with nuclear power, a socioscientific issue. They were encouraged to repeat the problem-solving cycle and define their problems for inquiry by themselves. A comparison of the student-defined problems showed that students came to define more comprehensive problems in the later definition activity, and the design principles discussed here were shown to be effective.

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Sakamoto, M., Yamaguchi, E., Inagaki, S., Oshima, J., Oshima, R., Murayama, I., Takenaka, M., Yamamoto, T., Fujimoto, M. & Nakayama, H. (2008). Fostering Students' Ability in "Defining Problems" on Socioscientific Issues through a CSCL-based Science Curriculum. In J. Luca & E. Weippl (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2008--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 2710-2715). Vienna, Austria: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved December 6, 2019 from .

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