This exploratory study describes how 2 classes of secondary 6 commerce students in Hong Kong have used a web-based collaborative tool, Knowledge Community (KC) to build a project called “Writing up a Business Plan” collaboratively. Using a number of 2-level scaffolds, students participated in the forum discussion to build business plan. The entire process unfolds how students, facilitated by scaffolds and teachers, brainstorm business idea and mission, decide on the type of product, plan production line and eventually formulate a business plan. The sample consisted of 41 students and 2 facilitators. Students’ participation in KC was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The strategies, suggestions and the feasibility of adopting KC for projects in schools will also be shared, along with the implications and key learning points of this project. Copyright © 2004 全球華人計算機教育應用學會.

There has been an increasing attention to integration of project-based learning into Asian school curricula. And the notion of learning community is a heated topic for learning to learn in knowledge-based societies. Yet the cognitive research on using web-based learning community for project-based learning is still under-developed in Asian contexts Based on literature review, some directions in collaborative learning strategies are suggested in web-based learning community or ecology. Through a scrutiny of basic functional tools of a web-based collaborative learning platform called Knowledge Community (KC), the paper endeavors to highlight the significance of four senses of scaffolding supports (in Vygotskian terminology) for knowledge co-construction and pedagogical facilitation in groups of primary and secondary (Grade 1-12) students in Hong Kong and Singapore. Copyright © 2004 全球華人計算機教育應用學會.

智慧教室以自動感知、識別、互聯、設備便攜等特徵，充分滿足了新一代學習者對強交互的要求。智慧教室環境下的課堂互動較之傳統課堂具有高度的複雜性，已有觀察工具很難滿足其研究需要。本研究在充分調研已有互動觀察工具基礎上,結合智慧教室特點，設計開發了面向智慧教室的中小學課堂互動觀察工具，共分為基本資訊、教室類型、教室硬軟體配備、技術支援的課堂互動過程、智慧教室環境對課堂交互的支援等五個主要部分。該工具在香港、北京和深圳的中小學進行了八輪30次現場課堂和10次錄影課堂的觀察、討論和修訂，經驗證具有較高的信效度和良好的使用體驗。
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