Collaborative Learning Environments: Developing SMART Classrooms in Theory and in Practice

Abstract

This chapter will outline the theory behind collaborative learning environments and describe several projects that best exemplify these theories and how best to incorporate them into the learning styles of the Net Generation's way of learning. Through partnerships with the St. Louis science center and the Children's Museum of Manhattan, visuality and interactivity have been incorporated into displays that demonstrate how these sorts of projects encourage students to collaborate in different ways as well as how teachers can introduce material in a variety of multidisciplinary formats.

Citation

Carter, B. and Linder, T. (2006), "Collaborative Learning Environments: Developing SMART Classrooms in Theory and in Practice", Tettegah, S.Y. and Hunter, R.C. (Ed.) Technology and Education: Issues in Administration, Policy, and Applications in K12 Schools (Advances in Educational Administration, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 201-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3660(05)08014-5