{"pk":27190,"title":"Boosting Knowledge-Building with Cognitive Dialog Games","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Dialog game tools are text chat applications which aim tostructure and promote students' collaborative learning byhaving them select a label and sentence-opener for eachmessage they type to their learning partner. In thisexperiment, we compared students’ learning from discussionsvia a dialog game tool to their learning via a standard freechatapplication. Students discussed topic questions with alearning partner. They then individually completed a multiplechoice test, for assessing knowledge-gain, and a short-answertest, to assess readiness for knowledge-building. Resultssuggest that dialog games applications lead to increasedreadiness for knowledge-building, in the form of integratingdistinct pieces of learned knowledge, than freechatapplications. Follow-up analyses suggest that the degree ofconcept overlap between students' dialog messages and topickeywords, as measured by a \"semantic fingerprint\" system, isa potentially useful metric for predicting students'knowledge-building. Implications and potential applicationsof our findings are discussed","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"collaborative learning; generative learning;knowledge-building; metacognition; dialog games"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0br8d1jj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"Herberg","name_suffix":"","institution":"A*STAR","department":""},{"first_name":"Ilker","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yengin","name_suffix":"","institution":"A*STAR","department":""},{"first_name":"Praveena","middle_name":"","last_name":"Satkunarajah","name_suffix":"","institution":"A*STAR","department":""},{"first_name":"Margaret","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tan","name_suffix":"","institution":"A*STAR","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27190/galley/16826/download/"}]}