@inproceedings{478e0007204e4ef3900d213920c5e35e,
title = "Cross-community interaction for knowledge building in two grade 5/6 classrooms",
abstract = "This study explores cross-community interaction in two Grade 5/6 knowledge building communities. The two classrooms studied human body systems with the support of Knowledge Forum over a 10-week period. As the students conducted focused inquiry and discourse within their own community, they reviewed productive threads of ideas and posted syntheses in a cross-community space, as synthetic boundary objects. A set of idea thread syntheses from previous classrooms studying human body systems was also posted in the cross-community space. Qualitative analyses of classroom videos, online discourse, and interviews provide a rich description of how the students conceived, generated, and interacted around the synthetic boundary objects for knowledge building across communities.",
author = "Jianwei Zhang and Maria Bogouslavsky and Guangji Yuan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} ISLS; 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - Making a Difference: Prioritizing Equity and Access in CSCL, CSCL 2017 ; Conference date: 18-06-2017 Through 22-06-2017",
year = "2017",
language = "English",
series = "Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL",
publisher = "International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)",
pages = "407--414",
editor = "Smith, \{Brian K.\} and Marcela Borge and Emma Mercier and Lim, \{Kyu Yon\}",
booktitle = "Making a Difference",
}