Designing for Divergence
| Autor: | N. Hari Narayanan, Teresa Hübscher-Younger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | Designing for Change in Networked Learning Environments ISBN: 9789048163212 CSCL |
| Popis: | Constructionist theories hold that learning will be deeper if students develop and share their own diverse understandings of a concept. College students are immersed in a community with its social norms, learning practices and an understanding of authority and the classroom contract. This situation makes it difficult for the students to have diverse understandings of a concept. This paper addresses how this affects the nature and diversity of representations students create for collaborative learning, and their perceptions of the quality of representations created by their peers. We redesigned and deployed a CSCL system with the goals of facilitating learning by leveraging students’ current collaborative learning practices and changing their perceptions of authority. We present summary results from two studies, which are part of an ongoing research program investigating these questions. In prior research we found that students have a strong sense of which style of representation is authoritative, and that this can lead to premature convergence and the suppression of alternative viewpoints. Results from the current studies indicate that creating, sharing and evaluating representations through a CSCL system improve learning. Furthermore, careful design of the CSCL system and learning activities can indeed lead to an increase in the diversity of created representations, avoiding some problems we saw previously with early convergence. However, authority still influences representational creation and evaluation. We revisit our design goals and recommendations in light of these results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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