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Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education SUSTAINING GROUP COGNITION IN A MATH CHAT ENVIRONMENT
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| Author | Stahl, Gerry |
| Abstract | Learning takes place over long periods of time that are hard to study directly. Even the learning experience involved in solving a challenging math problem in a collaborative online setting can be spread across hundreds of brief postings during an hour or more. Such long-term interactions are constructed out of posting-level interactions, such as the strategic proposition of a next step. This paper identifies a pattern of exchange of postings that it terms math proposal adjacency pair, and describes its characteristics. Drawing on the methodology of conversation analysis, the paper adapts this approach to investigating mathematical problem-solving communication and to the computer-mediated circumstances of online chat. Math proposals and other interaction methods constitute the collaborative group as a working group, give direction to its problem solving and help to sustain its shared meaning making or group cognition. Groups sustain their online social and intellectual work by building up longer sequences of math proposals, other adjacency pairs and a variety of interaction methods. Experiences of collaboration and products of group cognition emerge over time. |
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| Subject Keyword | Online Chat Math Proposal Next Step Learning Experience Problem Solving Brief Posting Long Period Computer-mediated Circumstance Collaborative Online Setting Posting-level Interaction Group Cognition Emerge Collaborative Group Conversation Analysis Mathematical Problem-solving Communication Math Problem Group Cognition Intellectual Work Shared Meaning Making Proposal Adjacency Pair Interaction Method Strategic Proposition Long-term Interaction Asia-pacific Society Adjacency Pair |
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| Resource Type | Article |