TECHNOLOGYAND PEDAGOGYFOR COLLABORATIVEPROBLEM SOLVINGAS A CONTEXT FOR LEARNING: REPORT ON A CSCW'92 WORKSHOP TIMOTHY KOSCHMANN,DENIS NEWMAN, EARLWOODRUFF, ROY PEAAND PETERROWLEY This workshop, sponsored jointly by CSCW '92 and the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), was organized to bring together researchers with interests in the emerging area of Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL). It was held at OISE on the weekend preceding CSCW '92 and was attended by 27 participants from academia and industry. There is a movement for reform in schools currently, which centers around changing the nature of the educational activity from teacher-led lessons on subject matter content to projectbased work in which students are active problem-solvers and theorists, while the teacher plays more of a coaching role. Very often, the complexity of the projects invites collaborative work as a way to bring multiple perspectives to the problem and for students to learn from each other. We are seeing collaborative problem-solving being used all the way from elementary school classrooms to professional education. While it has been observed that placing computers in classrooms often results in changes in the amount and kind of group work, we are
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