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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Reading for Idea Advancement in a Grade 4 Knowledge Building Community
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Zhang, Jianwei; Sun, Yanqing – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study looks into the reading practice in a Grade 4 knowledge building community that involved 22 students and a veteran teacher. The students investigated light over a three-month period supported by Knowledge Forum, a networked collaborative knowledge-building environment. The classroom designs encouraged the students to take on high-level…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis, Grade 4
Knowledge Building and Vocabulary Growth over Two Years, Grades 3 and 4
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Sun, Yanqing; Zhang, Jianwei; Scardamalia, Marlene – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
Productive knowledge work and high-level literacy are essential for engagement in a Knowledge society. In the research reported in this article, students were engaged in sustained collaborative knowledge building in science and social studies. The vocabulary growth of 22 students over Grades 3 and 4 was traced, based on their entries to Knowledge…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Guidelines, Grade 4, Grade 3