Facilitating middle school students' sense making process in digital libraries

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Facilitating middle school students' sense making process in digital libraries

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International Conference on Digital Libraries archive
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries table of contents

Denver, CO, USA

SESSION: Digital libraries and cyberinfastructure track: use of digital libraries in education table of contents

Pages: 19 - 20

Year of Publication: 2005

ISBN:1-58113-876-8

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Meilan Zhang	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Chris Quintana	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Previous research on using digital libraries in science classrooms indicated that middle school students tend to passively find answers rather than actively make sense of information they find in digital libraries. In response to this challenge, we designed a scaffolded software tool, the Digital IdeaKeeper, to support middle school students in making sense of digital library resources during online inquiry. This study describes preliminary results from a study to see how middle school students use different IdeaKeeper features. Initial data analysis indicates that IdeaKeeper can facilitate online learners to engage in sense-making process in online inquiry.

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