CSCL Poster

#893: Novel Figurative Language to Identify Promising Ideas in Knowledge Building Scientific Discourse

Thu Jun 18, 4:15 PM–5:45 PM · Outdoors

Part of CSCL Posters - Thursday Poster Session (In-Person)

Knowledge Building & Knowledge Creation Early Childhood & Elementary Learning Learning Analytics & Educational Data Mining Embodied & Multimodal Learning

This research explored grade 4 students’ novel figurative language to identify promising ideas in knowledge building community discourse. A mixed-method approach—semantic analysis using Word2Vec and qualitative coding—was adopted for the analysis. Results showed figurative language use involved conceptual reframing across science and everyday life domains and embodied perspective-taking. Our next step is to incorporate similarity to resource material and investigate how ideas containing figurative language supports the community discourse.

Speakers

Wakana Tsuji — University of Toronto

Authors

Wakana Tsuji, Marlene Scardamalia, Ahmad Khanlari