Emergent group understanding is an empirical phenomenon arising from the interplay of a social object and a technology object, revealed by two subprocesses: spontaneous information provision and setting localized goals¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Emergent group understanding arose from complex social interactions between the social and technology objects when Minecraft was used in a social studies classroom, with two connected subprocesses: spontaneous acts of providing information to contextualize actions against a common background, and setting localized goals to guide future actions and interactions. → Mørch 2024

Evidence¶

Mørch 2024¶

Mørch, A. I., Andersen, R., Eie, S., & Mifsud, L. (2024). Emergent group understanding: Investigating intersubjectivity in sociotechnical interdependencies. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-024-09432-5

q2 · i? · design · r3

Authors' summary of their interaction-analytic finding across the design-based research iterations: the phenomenon of "emergent group understanding" with its two subprocesses, reported as an empirical phenomenon identified in video- and screen-recorded classroom data rather than a tested statistical effect.

"This revealed two connected subprocesses: (1) a spontaneous act of providing information to assist learners in contextualizing their actions and interactions against a common background, and (2) setting localized goals to guide future actions and interactions."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Premature shared understanding: a group's bypassing of a member's skeptical comment left the social and technology objects misaligned, with partial agreement (Extract 3) — related
• The reconstruction phase produced two interdependent objects: a social object leading to a role-play script and a technology object leading to a Minecraft building — related
• Productive interactions in long-term small-group collaboration take different forms, with discourse-based and object-oriented patterns the most relevant — related
• Merging different technical understandings of Minecraft items into shared nomenclature enabled parallel division of building work (Extract 2) — a narrower finding that bears on this claim