Guest lecture by Prof. Jim Slotta
Topic: Smart Classrooms for Knowledge Communities
09.02.2012
Prof. Jim Slotta from the University of Toronto held a talk on "Smart Classrooms for Knowledge Communities" on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.
Prof. Slotta introuced a new pedagogical model called Knowledge Community and Inquiry (KCI) where a dimension of scaffolded inquiry provides increased structure and accessability to a knowledge community approach. He described three research studies that applied and investigated this model, as well we a new "smart classroom" technology environment, which has been developed to support such research.