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Multiliteracies is not only concerned with learners’ meaning-making using multiple communication and representation channels but with individuals’ contributions towards a collaborative and participatory culture.
However, understanding collective knowledge construction in computer-mediated discussions is challenging due to large and complex digital texts in online contexts.
To respond to this challenge, this study investigated the relationships between network structures and potentials for collaborative knowledge construction in a 12-week online multiliteracies professional education course by adopting Knowledge Society Network and Collaborative Knowledge Networks as analytical frameworks and using Social Network Analysis to find which network models the online course followed. Consequently, the network of teacher participants’ interactions showed high participant interaction and low idea interaction.
Published: 2021
Updated: May. 18, 2021
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The inclusion of alternative and multimodal methods for online interaction and knowledge construction in mathematics teacher education is still an incipient field.
In this paper, the authors present a multiple case study of three blended courses in an elementary mathematics teacher education program at Western University.
In these blended courses, the online component included the construction of collaborative mind maps.
Through constructivist grounded theory methods, they analyzed teacher candidates’ mind maps as
(a) final products, and
(b) interaction processes.
The resulting theory describes how pre-service mathematics teachers interact and construct knowledge while they engage in online collaborative mind mapping.
The study provides insights into the ways that collaborative and multimodal technologies affect mathematics teacher education, and in turn, suggests how its implementation may be improved.
Published: 2020
Updated: Dec. 03, 2020
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This article aims to describe a qualitative action research study into the collective experiences of establishing a mentoring culture within a research triad consisting of a university professor together with a doctoral student and a master’s level student who served as research assistants (RA). The authors believe the establishment of the mentoring culture facilitated the identification of individual needs within the triad, which in turn allowed for increased confidence, adaptive support, and appropriate skills development necessary for all members to contribute to the successful completion of the project. The authors concluded that the application of the model to graduate RAships with multiple participants might lead to enhancement of working environments and professional growth due to multiple contact-points and exposures to specific tasks or skill-sets around which the work is organized.
Published: 2014
Updated: Dec. 06, 2015
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This article comments on Greenhow, Robelia, and Hughes (2009). It examines the potential strengths and weaknesses of Web 2.0 in supporting student collaborative creativity in light of socio-cultural conditions of knowledge creation. Discussion is extended to the use of the Web for supporting teacher learning and innovation.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jul. 21, 2009
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This study was situated in Singapore, which aims to achieve engaged learning in P–12 schools with the use of educational technology. One of the foci of study among Singaporean educational researchers is a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment. Such an environment emphasizes collaboration among learners for the coconstruction of knowledge. The goal of this case study is to gain insights into how negotiation and coconstruction of knowledge occurs among participating teachers during their participation in a knowledge-building community.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 16, 2009
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This study investigates the process of collaborative knowledge construction when technology and pictorial knowledge representations are used for visualizing individual and groups’ shared ideas. The focus of the study is on how teacher-students contribute to the group’s collaborative knowledge construction and use each other’s ideas and tools as an affordance for their jointly evolving cognitive systems.
Published: 2008
Updated: Apr. 12, 2008