Classroom Orchestration
Summary
Contributor: Jennifer Olsen
In the Learning Sciences community, the multi-tasking role of the teacher has received more attention recently, especially with the use of technology-enhanced collaborative learning in classrooms. In the classroom, teachers have to orchestrate both the interactions that happen within an activity, the micro-script, and the overall sequence of activities that can occur at the whole class, group, and individual levels, the macro-script. Orchestration, in the widest definition, entails the design of the learning activity, the adaption and planning of the activity for a specific class, and the real-time management of that activity across multiple planes and under multiple constraints. These constraints include both internal constraints of student learning and external constraints of the classroom, such as class length. In classroom orchestration, the importance of these external constraints to designing and supporting productive learning is emphasized. Additionally, multi-planes are important for classroom orchestration because much of the difficulty of orchestration comes into play when transitioning between planes, which creates the need for coordination between students. Although switching social planes raises orchestration issues, they can lead to enriched scenarios with learning activities inspired by multiple learning theories that are not mutually exclusive in practice. Furthermore, the use of multiple social planes can allow for pedagogical designs where one activity is used to foster richness in the next activity.
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Video Resources
For a brief overview of Classroom Orchestration, watch the 2 minute introductory video featuring Pierre Dillenbourg:
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Watch the keynote recording on Classroom Orchestration from the the 2012 International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) featuring Pierre Dillenbourg:
Listen to the Classroom Orchestration webinar
Introduction to Classroom Orchestration
It is recommended that the participants watch the video recording of Pierre Dillenbourg’s keynote at ICLS 2012 (available in the videos above). Transcript:
- Dillenbourg, P. (2012). Classroom Orchestration: Interweaving Digital and Physical Workflows. In J. van Aalst, K. Thompson, M. J. Jacobson & P. Reimann (Eds.), The future of learning: Proceedings of the 10th international conference of the learning sciences (ICLS 2012) – Volume 2, short papers, symposia, and abstracts (p. 4). Sydney, Australia: ISLS.
Reading
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- Dillenbourg, P. (2013). Design for classroom orchestration. Computers & Education, 69, 485–492. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.04.013]
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Learning Scientists Who Have Researched This Topic
- Juan Asensio-Perez
- Pierre Dillenbourg
- Yannis Dimitriadis
- Davinia Hernandez-Leo
- Roberto Martinez-Maldonado
- Juan Munoz-Cristobal
- Luis Prieto