1. Learning by creating and exchanging objects: The SCY experience
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Yuri Matteman, Marieke Rinket, Alex Verkade, Wouter R. van Joolingen, Anthony Perritano, Lars Bollen, Sten R. Ludvigsen, Vibeke Vold, Ard W. Lazonder, Judith Lechner, Adam Giemza, James D. Slotta, Zacharias C. Zacharia, Jörg Kindermann, Margus Pedaste, Astrid Wichmann, Ton de Jong, Anders Kluge, Florian Schulz, J. Engler, Øyvind Meistadt, Ulrich Hoppe, Caspar Geraedts, Henrik Von Schlanbusch, Barbara Wasson, Anjo Anjewierden, Marjolaine Bodin, Rachel Julien, Martine Van Der Zanden, Tasos Hovardas, Bjørge Næss, Claire Wajeman, Tago Sarapuu, Isabelle Girault, Jakob Sikken, Jeremy Toussaint, Stefan Weinbrenner, Armin Weinberger, Henrik Grosskreutz, Jan Arild Dolonen, Cédric d'Ham, and Muriel Ney
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Cooperative learning ,Technology education ,Knowledge management ,business.industry ,Process (engineering) ,4. Education ,Learning environment ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,Experiential learning ,Science education ,Education ,Work (electrical) ,0502 economics and business ,Active learning ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Mathematics education ,business ,0503 education ,050203 business & management ,Mathematics - Abstract
Science Created by You (SCY) is a project on learning in science and technology domains. SCY uses a pedagogical approach that centres around products, called 'emerging learning objects' (ELOs) that are created by students. Students work individually and collaboratively in SCY-Lab (the general SCY learning environment) on 'missions' that are guided by socio-scientific questions (for example 'How can we design a CO2-friendly house?'). Fulfilling SCY missions requires a combination of knowledge from different content areas (eg, physics, mathematics, biology, as well as social sciences). While on a SCY mission, students perform several types of learning activities that can be characterised as productive processes (experiment, game, share, explain, design, etc), they encounter multiple resources, collaborate with varying coalitions of peers and use changing constellations of tools and scaffolds. The configuration of SCY-Lab is adaptive to the actual learning situation and may provide advice to students on appropriate learning activities, resources, tools and scaffolds, or peer students who can support the learning process. The SCY project aims at students between 12 and 18 years old. In the course of the project, a total of four SCY missions will be developed, of which one is currently available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010