2006 Volume 47 Issue 2 Pages 31-39
The purpose of this research is to create an environment for socio-cultural learning in which students in a fifth-grade science class studying the dissolution of substances can participate explicity in communicative activity. For this purpose an electronic board was used as an intermediary to function as a supportive tool. Three roles of the electronic board were examined: 1) as a dialogue board used to classify and organize ideas; 2) as a dialogue board used to exchange ideas by (a) exchanging information using drawings, (b) exchanging information through collaborative activity; and 3) to explain experimental procedures. As a result, it was suggested that the electronic board helped to focus various ideas in real time during discourse and prompted cooperative construction of scientific concepts.
