Monday, February 5, 2007
9:00-13:00 - Session 1: Construction of Knowledge
Chair: Baruch B. Schwarz.
Location: Room #501, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club.
The session
will focus on the power and weaknesses in adopting a 'construction of
knowledge' metaphor for learning and on empirical studies that capitalize on
it. Among the issues that may be raised: abstraction, consolidation, shared
knowledge.
Lectures
Andre Tiberghien
PROCESSES
OF ABSTRACTION IN CONTEXT: THE NESTED EPISTEMIC ACTIONS MODEL. [Presentation]
Tommy
Dreyfus
Reactor: Patrick Thompson. EPISTEMOLOGY,
ONTOLOGY, AND METHOD: COMMENTS ON TIBERGHIEN’S AND DREYFUS’ PAPERS.
--Coffee
Break--
Panel: Heinz Steinbring, Bat-Sheva Eylon, John Monaghan, Paul
Cobb.
15:00-18:30 - Session 2:
Research Methodology
Chair: John Monaghan.
Location: Room #501, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club.
The
session will focus on methodological issues to observe and evaluate
construction of knowledge especially in small group collaborative work and in
classrooms.
Lectures
Mitchell Nathan, Billie
Eilam & Suyeon Kim
CONTOUR LINES BETWEEN A MODEL AS A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND THE SAME
MODEL AS METHODOLOGICAL TOOL.
Rina Hershkowitz
Reactor: Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont.
[Paper]
--Coffee
Break--
Panel: Christine Howe, Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs,
Geoffrey B. Saxe.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
9:00-12:30 - Session 3:
Methodologies for Researching Construction of Knowledge
Chair: Michael Baker.
Location: Room #501, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club.
Continuation of
Session 2. The
session will also focus on methods for the observation of construction of
knowledge in classrooms in successive activities (i.e. by observing how signs
are used).
Lectures
FOSTERING PRODUCTIVE DISCIPLINARY ENGAGEMENT IN AN EVOLUTIONARY
BIOLOGY CLASSROOM.
Ellice Ann Forman
METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING THE TRAVEL OF IDEAS IN
CLASSROOM COMMUNITIES.
Geoffrey B. Saxe
Reactor: Paolo Boero.
--Coffee
Break--
Panel: Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont,
Gaye Williams, Dina Tirosh, W. Michael Roth.
13:00-17:00 - Excursion.
19:00-21:30 - Session 4:
Public lectures
Chair: Bat-Sheva Eylon.
Location: Large Hall, 3rd Floor, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club.
Paul Cobb, Lynn Liao Hodge, &
Melissa Gresalfi
W. Michael
Roth
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
9:00-12:30 - Session 5:
Dialogue
Chair: Christine Howe.
Location: Room #501, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club.
The
session will focus on dialogism, on argumentation and learning, on critical and
reflective dialogues and on quality of dialogues.
Lectures
Michael
Baker
Baruch B. Schwarz & Christa S. C. Asterhan
Reactor: Anna Sfard
ARGUMENTATION
ON LEARNING THROUGH ARGUMENTATION: COMMENTARY ON BAKER AND SCHWARZ &
ASTERHAN.
--Coffee
Break--
Panel: Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Ellice Ann Forman, Paolo Boero.
14:30-18:00 - Session 6:
Guidance
Chair: Abraham Arcavi.
Location: Room #501, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club.
The
session will focus on the role of the teacher in knowledge construction in general
and in classroom discussion in particular: meta-cognitive scaffolding, ground
rules for talk, scripts for construction of knowledge.
Lectures
EXPERT
SUPPORT FOR GROUP WORK IN ELEMENTARY SCIENCE: THE ROLE OF CONSENSUS.
Christine Howe
GUIDED CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE CLASSROOM: TEACHER TALK,
TASK, AND TOOLS.
Sarah Michaels, M.C. OConnor, Richard Sohmer & Lauren Resnick
Reactor: Heinz Steinbring.
TEACHER
GUIDANCE AND STUDENT LEARNING IN MATHEMATICS TEACHING COMMUNICATING INVISIBLE
KNOWLEDGE.
--Coffee
Break--
Panel: Rupert Wegerif, Anat Zohar, Ruhama
Even, Sidney Strauss, Michal Yerushalmi.
19:30-21:30 - Session 7:
Research Policy in Education
Chair
and moderator: Dina Tirosh.
Location: Room #501, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club.
Two lectures
by Sidney Strauss (Chief Scientist of the Israel
Ministry of Education and professor at Tel Aviv University) and Anat Zohar (Head of the Pedagogical Center
of the Israel Ministry of Education and professor at the Hebrew University of
Anat Zohar: “RESEARCH
ON TEACHING AND LEARNING VERSUS POLICY MAKING: IS IT AT ALL RELEVANT?”.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
8:30-12:30 - Session 8: Software
design principles for facilitating knowledge construction
Moderator: Baruch B. Schwarz.
Location: Classroom #9, Social Sciences Computer Labs, area
7, Social Sciences building. (Map)
Productive e-discussions; representational guidance;
awareness tools for guiding e-discussions; quality of (guidance in)
e-discussions (or guidance for productive e-discussions). In this session, three lecturers
will present tools that help in construction of knowledge, and the design
principles that led to their elaboration. The three lectures will focus on a large
number of successive activities during which consequential transitions
occur.
8:30- 9:45 - Ulrich Hoppe / The ARGUNAUT project (Experience led by Reuma de Groot).
9:45-10:00 - Coffee
break
10:00-11:15 Kai Hakkarainen / FROM
MONOLOGICAL AND DIALOGICAL TO TRIALOGICAL APPROACHES TO LEARNING
(Experience led by Sten
Ludvigssen).
11:15-12:30 Michal Yerushalmi / "EPISTEMOLOGICAL
DISCONTINUITIES AND COGNITIVE HIERARCHIES IN TECHNOLOGY-BASED ALGEBRA LEARNING".
14:30-18:00 - Session 9:
Technological tools and e-discussions
Chair: Dani Ben-Zvi.
Location: Room #501, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club.
This
session will focus on the quality of (guidance in) e-discussions and on the
professional development of teachers to help in construction of knowledge in
technological environments.
Lectures
QUALITY
E-DIALOGUES: WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW CAN WE SUPPORT THEM?.
Rupert Wegerif
TEACHER SUPPORT OF COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSIONS.
Jerry Andriessen
Reactor: Sten Ludvigssen [Presentation].
--Coffee
Break--
Panel: Ulrich Hoppe, Ivy Kidron,
Amnon Glassner, Yifat Kulikant, Patrick Thompson.
19:30-21:30 - Session 10:
Summary and Conclusion
Chair: Tommy Dreyfus.
Location: Room #501, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club.
Comments: Christa Asterhan, Michal Tabach, Dovi Weiss, Gaye Williams [Paper],
Luis Maldonado
and
Abraham Arcavi [Paper].