Workshop Details:
Workshop title: Exploring the Bridge Between Educational Neuroscience & Learning Sciences in Knowledge Building Classrooms
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Date: 3 June 2022 Time: 8pm to 11 pm( Singapore Time, UTC/GMT +8hours)
8am to 11am New York Time
1pm to 4 pm London Time
9pm to 12 am Tokyo Time
Organisers:
Chew Lee, Teo, chewlee.teo@nie.edu.sg; Katherine Guangji Yuan, yuanguangji@gmail.com, Singapore National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological University; Nastassja Lopes Fischer, nastassja.lf@ntu.edu.sg, Victoria Leong, Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, victorialeong@ntu.edu.sg
Workshop Description
This workshop invites researchers from Educational Neuroscience and Learning Sciences to discuss the potential and gaps in the integration of the research processes, its related theoretical and methodological perspectives. We will look into cognitive, psychological, and neurological data in an authentic classroom grounded on Knowledge Building classroom. Knowledge Building is an established learning science that focuses on idea-centric collaborative practice. The complex and evolving idea-centric interacting patterns in synchronous and asynchronous platforms in a KB classroom, coupled with its principle-based approach that defies the traditional structured and activity-based approach to learning makes it an ideal troubleshooting ground for the exploration of neuroscience and learning sciences research. From the different panelists’ presentation at the workshop, we will discuss implications and ideas to move this interdisciplinary work forward.
This 3-hour workshop will be divided into three sections:
Section 1 - Introduction The group will engage in ice-breaking games and experience-sharing activities to express their research interests and cultivate a sense of belonging as a community.
Section 2 - The Current State of Knowledge and Our Endeavour This section includes a short introductory presentation by the workshop co-organizers followed by two 30-minute invited presentations and a live-demonstration on a proposed use of dyadic EEG to measure KB activities. The whole group will join in a well-structured group discussion. Participants in small groups will have a chance to deepen the conversation, this deep conversation will allow participants to fully express themselves in small groups. And then come back to the large group to have a metacognitive meeting to share the insights with the large group. The goal for the small and large group discussion is to increase participants' engagement during discussion and push the advancement of the community’s knowledge boundary at a larger community.
Section 3 - New Insights and Future Direction The whole group will engage in closing activities to reflect on what we learned and discussed, identify viable ideas, and plan future activities.
Expected Audience
We invite and welcome teachers and researchers from all domains of CSCL who are interested in Educational Neuroscience and its potential implementation in Knowledge Building Classrooms. This includes technological, neuroscience, learning analytics, theoretical, methodological perspectives, etc.