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Dual Interaction Spaces:. Martin M. Gerry Stahl. Meaning Making. A central theme in CSCL literature A key process in collaborative learning Rarely investigated directly How do people make sense of what is taking place in an environment like the Virtual Math Teams sessions?
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Dual Interaction Spaces: Martin M. Gerry Stahl
Meaning Making • A central theme in CSCL literature • A key process in collaborative learning • Rarely investigated directly • How do people make sense of what is taking place in an environment like the Virtual Math Teams sessions? • How can researchers analyze meaning making in (synchronous) CSCL contexts? • What are the conditions & preconditions necessary to support online meaning making? (see paper for another story)
How is meaning made? Co-construction &/or reference to: • Lexical definitions • Environmental resources • Intentional continuities • Topical responses • Contextual relevancies • Indexical frames
Face-to-face classroom • familiar people and artifacts • parallel collaboration
How is meaning made F2F? Co-construction &/or reference to: • Lexical definitions — speech • Environmental resources — physical artifacts • Intentional continuities — human bodies • Topical responses — turn taking • Contextual relevancies — visually & physically shared local history • Indexical frames — gesture, glance
Acknowledgments & refs The VMT team for the conditions of research NSF, Drexel, Math Forum for preconditions • Lexical definitions — traditional philosophy • Environmental resources — Stahl (JECR) • Intentional continuities — Stahl (IJCIS) • Topical responses — Stahl (RPTEL) • Contextual relevancies — Suthers (06, 07) • Indexical frames — Hanks (92); Zemel (07)
Links • my website with papers on group cognition and analyses of VMT interactions — http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/ • http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/vmtwiki/paper.ppt (these slides) • read: Stahl (2006) Group Cognition, MIT Press. • subscribe to: the International Journal of CSCL through your ISLS membership