Co-Designing Technology Scaffolds and Scripts for Co-Regulated, Adaptable Learning Community Curricula

Abstract

Knowledge Community and Inquiry (KCI) is a learning community model that offers a set of principles to guide the design of collective inquiry scripts, however, the model has yet to include any direct role for a student model, nor any explicit mechanism for adaptable scripts. This study presents a technology innovation, co-designed with a middle school mathematics teacher, that will serve to support student modeling and adaptable scripts. Part of a larger study presently in progress, this paper presents a work-in-progress of the design-based research method, focused on problem identification, design, and testing of the scripts and technology innovation. The conjecture of the broader design experiment is that by adding new forms of scaffolds and student-sensitive adaptable scripts to KCI, we can facilitate adaptations and co-regulation of learning that promote student outcomes (e.g., content acquisition, engagement, social-emotional learning, and the development of learners' identities in mathematics).