Affordances of Collaborative Software Design Planning for Elementary Students' Science Talk

Journal of the Learning Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 323-363

  Kafai, Yasmin B ^a   Ching, Cynthia Carter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0035626553     PISSN: 10508406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327809JLS1003_4     Document Type: Article

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