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

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.