CSCL07 Doctoral Consortium

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Panel 1: Awareness Tools for Collaborative Learning: Three Design Studies

Knowledge Mirroring (Jessica Dehler vgk.de)

Representation of one's own knowledge and that of your partners
Self-assessment: QUALITY of your understanding (did I understand X correctly)
Knowledge Awareness -> Helps a peer tutor assess "usefulness" (what to ask, what to explain)
IS "REPRESENTATION OF HIS KNOWLEDGE" TOO STRONG A TERM?
BUT WHAT IS THE NATURE of an ASSESSMENT? IS it obscured with a rating? e.g failure of learners models on mistakes!

Effects of Knowledge Awareness (Sukji Kwon)

Awareness in CSCW: an understanding of the activities of others (Dourish & Bellotti, 1992)
Knowledge Structure Awareness -> An understanding of the constituent part of key concept and relations between parts OF OTHERS

Effects of Awareness of Group Memebers' Rationales (Lu Xiao)

Dewey: Reflective thought as "active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge... it is a consciouls and voluntary effort to establish belief upon a firm basis of reasos" (1970)
Van Manen: Technical, Practical and Critical reflection
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