Learning support through scaffolding collaborative project work

Authors:
Matthias Korn;Michael Veith
Affiliations:
University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany;University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Venue:
CSCL'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - Volume 2
Year:
2009

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Abstract

A Computer Club House (CCH) can be understood as a community of prosumers in which members are producing and consuming personally meaningful artifacts of each other. In a long term case study, we have analyzed learning practices in a German CCH setting. Observing children and their parents working with construction kits, we found that they had problems in maintaining the flow of their project work over time. Therefore, we develop concepts for a project management tool which support CCH settings to scaffold their growing information space in terms of artifact re-use and expertise development over time. Scaffolding in this regard is understood to support collaborative processes of learning communities.