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Journal article
Supporting Group Cognition in an Online Math Community: A Cognitive Tool for Small-Group Referencing in Text Chat
Journal of educational computing research, v 35(2)
Sep 2006
Abstract
The Virtual Math Teams Project is exploring how to create, structure, support, and assess an online chat-based collaborative community devoted to mathematics discourse. It is analyzing the forms of group cognition that emerge from the use of shared cognitive tools with specific functionalities. Centered on a case study of a synchronous online interchange, this article discusses the use of a graphical referencing tool in coordination with text chat to achieve a group orientation to a particular mathematical object in a shared whiteboard. Deictic referencing is seen to be a critical foundation of intersubjective cognitive processes that index objects of shared attention. The case study suggests that cognitive tools to support group referencing can be important to supporting group alignment, intentionality, and cognition in online communities such as this one for collaborative mathematics.
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Details
- Title
- Supporting Group Cognition in an Online Math Community: A Cognitive Tool for Small-Group Referencing in Text Chat
- Creators
- Gerry Stahl - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of educational computing research, v 35(2)
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-34249863220
- Other Identifier
- 991019173847604721