Dual Interaction Spaces:

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Dual Interaction Spaces

• Martin M.
• Gerry Stahl

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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)

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How is meaning made?

• Co-construction /or reference to
• Lexical definitions
• Environmental resources
• Intentional continuities
• Topical responses
• Contextual relevancies
• Indexical frames

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Face-to-face classroom

• familiar people and artifacts
• parallel collaboration

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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

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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)

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Links

• my website with papers on group cognition and
  analyses of VMT interactions http//www.cis.drex
  el.edu/faculty/gerry/
• http//www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/vmtwiki/pa
  per.ppt (these slides)
• read Stahl (2006) Group Cognition, MIT Press.
• subscribe to the International Journal of CSCL
  through your ISLS membership