Reflection Prompts to Facilitate Students' Thinking about Teaching in Teachable Agent Environment

Authors:
Longkai Wu;Chee-Kit Looi
Affiliations:
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, wulk@mail.nie.edu.sg, cheekit.looi@nie.edu.sg;National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, wulk@mail.nie.edu.sg, cheekit.looi@nie.edu.sg
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Supporting Learning Flow through Integrative Technologies
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The teachable agent environment provides middle school students with opportunities of engaging in teaching activities in an interactive environment that fosters active learning (Biswas, Schwarz, & Bransford, 2001). However, they are not directly supported to think about their teaching as they teach. This paper proposes a reflection prompt production mechanism in a teachable agent environment to prompt students to reflect on their teaching process. A pilot study on the benefits of introducing reflection prompts and the further development of the teachable agents with reflective learning support are described.