10 Orchestrating Classroom CSCL

A Multi-Level Pattern Approach for Design and Enactment

Luis P. Prieto, Sara Villagrá-Sobrino, Yannis Dimitriadis, and Iván Jorrín-Abellán

1 Introduction

Mark Weiser stated in 1991 that the most profound technologies are those that disappear, the ones that ‘weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it’ (Weiser, 1991). However, although ICT is slowly permeating all aspects of our lives, technology has certainly not ‘weaved itself into the fabric of everyday’ learning.

Today, classrooms are complex technological ecosystems (Luckin, 2008), where practitioners are asked to design and enact non-trivial pedagogical learning activities, integrating a wide variety of tools ...

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