Seminar at the University of Toronto
Post date: Apr 17, 2013 4:22:46 PM
On April 12, 2013, I was pleased to give a seminar at the division of Biomedical Communication at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus.
Of course, it was an especially pleasant visit since the program happens to be the one through which I earned my Masters' degree between 2002-2004. It was great to see how it's grown since my graduation, and to talk with colleagues about all the exciting things they'd been up to since we parted ways.
I called my talk Designing technologies that scaffold and assess students’ use of visual evidence during science inquiry, and in it, I premiered our first findings from classroom trials of the Collaborative Idea Manager!
This new collaborative feature allows students to exchange ideas with their peers during their work on a WISE unit. It's so far proving to be an exciting new tool both for supporting and researching collaboration during science inquiry. I was happy to share these new findings with old friends.
