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Yeo, Jennifer; Tan, Seng Chee – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
The introduction of problem-based learning into K-12 science classrooms faces the challenge of achieving the dual goal of learning science content and developing problem-solving skills. To overcome this content-process tension in science classrooms, we employed the knowledge-creation approach as a boundary object between the two seemingly…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, High School Students
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Hung, David; Tan, Seng Chee – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2004
The perspective of communities as a situated context dates back to the works of Vygotsky (1978, 1981) who posited that cognition begins at the social inter-mental level and through the process of internalization meanings become translated or assimilated into the individual level. Within this social to individual transition, learners can be…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices