Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Teaching Chemistry in a Social Learning Environment: Facing Drivers and
  Barriers   The Portuguese Technological Plan for Education (TPE) was established to
modernize schools and to consolidate the role of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) in order to promote the academic success of students and
allow schools to be transformed into technological enriched environments
through a significant learning and knowledge building in a participatory,
collaborative and sharing logic. With this work we aimed to establish dynamical
interactions students-content- teacher in order to overcome a diagnosed
students' lack of effort towards studying curriculum chemistry content. Our
methodology design is a theoretical and descriptive one, carried out in a
secondary school during the 2009/2010 school year, in order to answer the
question "How to improve the engagement of K-12 students in chemistry
classes?". Students, gathered in small groups were asked to create digital
learning resources (DLR) during classes. The teacher assumed the role of the
supervisor, coacher and facilitator of every task that had to be taken or
chosen by the students. To enhance interaction student-student and
student-teacher, a Twitter account and a Ning site were created for the class.
Both supported the Social Learning Environment (SLE) that was intended to be
created. The data collected led us to satisfactory results in what concerns the
goals of the study. The affordances and constraints of SLE as an open
architecture that has potential to facilitate collaborative learning are
delineated. Future work should focus on mechanisms that allow assessment both
of the methodology used and the students' generated content in order to improve
students' learning in this environment.

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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas