%0 Journal Article
%T Scaffolding Online Discourse in Collaborative Ill-Structured Problem-Solving for Innovation
%A Deller James FERREIRA
%A Gilberto LACERDA dos SANTOS
%J Informatics in Education
%D 2009
%I Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
%X This work highlights the importance of verbal creativity, providing a productive online discourse definition, in which students intertwine convergent and divergent thinking by means of a transactional and controversial dialog. Developing the formulated productive online discourse definition, it is also presented and evaluated, an original scaffolding process designed here to further collaborative knowledge building, during ill-structured problem-solving, focusing on creativity and innovation. Evidence from qualitative online discourse analysis indicated an improvement in the knowledge building processes, and knowledge advancement and deepening after teacher's scaffolding.
%K Scaffolding
%K Creativity
%K Collaboration
%K Ill-structured problem-solving
%K Innovation
%K Productive online discourse
%K Transaction
%U http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/pdf/INFE153.pdf