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Computer-based activities are an effective way of infusing thinking skills into subject area teaching and learning. This is because, with the right teacher input and software design group work around computers can turn reasoning skills into learning outcomes. The computer has a special role to play here. Computers can initiate, resource and frame a discussion as a teacher can, but unlike teachers they are never judgmental and have infinite patience. Once children have been prepared for talking together effectively (see Thinking Together book referenced here) we found that when the computer prompted them with a challenge or a question they were able to sit back from the screen and discuss the issue together before reaching a shared decision about what response to make. In this way they construct their own understandings together but in a way that is directed towards curriculum goals by the computer software. |
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