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Edited by Dr. Lynne Schrum, George Mason University
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| formerly Journal of Research on Computing in Education |
Volume 40 Number 3 Spring 2008
How Pictorial Knowledge Representations Mediate Collaborative Knowledge Construction In Groups
Piia Näykki and Sanna Järvelä
University of Oulu, Finland
Abstract
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. The context of the study is a teacher-student (N=13) educational technology course. The data involved students’ videotaped face-to-face group activities (mindmapping with paper and pen and mind-mapping with a Mobile Mind Map Tool and pictorial knowledge representations) as well as stimulated recall interviews. The data-driven qualitative content analysis revealed that students were engaged in knowledge level and transactivity level activities and they processed their own ideas as well as others’ ideas in their group interactions.
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Contributors
Piia Näykki, M.Ed., PhD student, is working as a researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland. Näykki’s research interest is focused on collaborative and self-regulated learning. (piia.naykki@oulu.fi)
Professor Sanna Järvelä is working at the University of Oulu, Finland, and leading a research group focusing on the issues of learning processes in new technology-based learning environments. Järvelä has published articles in international journals and she has been active in national and international scientific organizations. She has been invited to participate in different expert tasks in ICT and learning by the Ministry of Education and the OECD. During the year 2000–2001 she was acting as a visiting Research Fellow at the Kings College in London. (sanna.jarvela@oulu.fi)
Copyright 2008, (International Society for Technology in Education). All rights reserved.
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