Collaborative Learning Environment Frameworks for Facilitating Development of Thought and Knowledge Acquisition through Knowledge Interactions

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In this report, considering the children's learning activities based on Vygotsky's theory of "Zone of Proximal Development", we proposed a model of students' interaction for their knowledge interchanges. Moreover, studying on dynamics of children's learning and development based on the theory of "Legitimate Peripheral Participation", we developed instructional design for teaching and learning of some subjects and "Integrated Study". For the implementation of the above mentioned the concepts and the designs, we developed some systems as cooperative learning environments implemented with Web-DB, which is consisted of server computer-systems for the students' communication and DB system storing learning information of the students. In our learning environment, students can put/remove the tags as the meta-information of their learning information by themselves. Additionally, the client machines can organize/serialize the learning information by using a mechanism implemented with HTML and J … More avaScript. The Web-DB system implemented with FileMaker and WebCompanion. Also, we prototyped some visualization tools of the students' learning information, and its history and their interaction, and the relationship between the tags.These studies applied our teaching-learning practices in some units of the subjects (ex.a subject of "Integrated Study" in elementary school, national language in elementary school, elementary arithmetics in elementary school, a subject of "Technology and Manufacturing" in junior high school, geography in junior high school). We developed the units and the cooperative learning environment for each unit. In each teaching-learning practice, we developed (electronic) worksheets schema-structured for children's cognition style to the learning contents of the each subjects. Our learning has a scaffolding function for supporting the students' communication with "Connective, Term".Furthermore, we databased the record and the result of analysis of the teaching-learning practice between these two years. Less