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CSCL for Intellectually Disabled Pupils: Stimulating Interaction by Using a Floor Control Mechanism
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Cress, Ulrike; Wodzicki, Katrin; Bientzle, Martina; Lingnau, Andreas – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011
Computer-supported collaborative learning has an unexploited potential of becoming an effective learning method for pupils with intellectual disabilities. This paper aims at showing how some specific requirements of this target group may be met by structuring a learning situation with the help of "floor control," which restricts the opportunities…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Interaction, Special Needs Students, Communication Strategies
A Multimodal Approach to Coding Discourse: Collaboration, Distributed Cognition, and Geometric Reasoning
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Evans, Michael A.; Feenstra, Eliot; Ryon, Emily; McNeill, David – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011
Our research aims to identify children's communicative strategies when faced with the task of solving a geometric puzzle in CSCL contexts. We investigated how to identify and trace "distributed cognition" in problem-solving interactions based on discursive cohesion to objects, participants, and prior discursive content, and geometric and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Geometric Concepts, Children
The Role of Floor Control and of Ontology in Argumentative Activities with Discussion-Based Tools
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Schwarz, Baruch B.; Glassner, Amnon – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2007
Argumentative activity has been found beneficial for construction of knowledge and evaluation of information in some conditions. Many theorists in CSCL and some empiricists have suggested that graphical representations may help in this endeavor. In the present study, we examine effects of type of ontology and of synchronicity in students that…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Persuasive Discourse, Discussion Groups, Communication Strategies
The Affordance of Anchored Discussion for the Collaborative Processing of Academic Texts
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van der Pol, J.; Admiraal, W.; Simons, P. R. J. – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2006
A system for "anchored discussion" is compared with a system for traditional forum discussion (Blackboard), and their collaborative and communicative affordances for the collaborative processing of academic texts are investigated. Results show that discussion in the system for anchored discussion is more directed at processing the meaning of texts…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cooperation, Discussion Groups, Communication Strategies