TeachINg, learNINg, aNd kNowledge buIldINg: The caSe of The remoTe NeTworked School INITIaTIVe
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2012, Vol 40, Issue 3
Abstract
The Remote Networked School (RNS)/« École éloignée en réseau » is an initiative that aims at implementing an innovation with Internet-based technologies in support of teaching and learning as well as knowledge building in small rural schools. The first eight years of the RNS are examined applying Engeström’s activity theory framework, and more specifically the concept of expansive learning wherein we document the 7 stages. Tensions and contradictions are identified to provide an “inside” understanding of what matters when new technologies designed to support co-teaching and co-learning within and between classrooms are introduced. Two activity systems or more shared the same object such that students would engage actively in collaborative online discourse for solving authentic problems. To this end the trajectory of the RNS initiative had to overcome contradictions. As a result an expansive learning cycle was documented.
Authors and Affiliations
Thérèse Laferrière, Sylvie Barma, Fernand Gervais, Christine Hamel, Stéphane Allaire, Alain Breuleux
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