Reflection prompts to facilitate students' thinking about teaching in teachable agent environment

Longkai WU, Chee Kit LOOI

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Abstract

The teachable agent environment provides middle school students with opportunities of engaging in teaching activities in an interactive environment that fosters active learning (Biswas, Schwarz, & Bransford, 2001). However, they are not directly supported to think about their teaching as they teach. This paper proposes a reflection prompt production mechanism in a teachable agent environment to prompt students to reflect on their teaching process. A pilot study on the benefits of introducing reflection prompts and the further development of the teachable agents with reflective learning support are described. Copyright © 2007 The authors and IOS Press.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSupporting learning flow through integrative technologies
EditorsTsukasa HIRASHIMA, Ulrich HOPPE, Shelley Shwu-Ching YOUNG
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherIOS Press
Pages527-534
ISBN (Print)9781586037970
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Citation

Wu, L., & Looi, C.-K. (2007). Reflection prompts to facilitate students' thinking about teaching in teachable agent environment. In T. Hirashima, U. Hoppe, & S. S.-C. Young (Eds.), Supporting learning flow through integrative technologies (pp. 527-534). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

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