Wiki negotiation unfolds in four episodes with distinct intersubjective orientations, beginning with an exploratory orientation during content generation¶
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q2 i? In the first episode, students generated shared content and planned the writing with an exploratory orientation, making ideas explicit, giving reasons, and proposing a text organisation. → Pifarré 2011
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Pifarré 2011¶
Pifarré, M. & Kleine Staarman, J. (2011). Wiki-supported collaborative learning in primary education: How a dialogic space is created for thinking together. International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 6(2), 187-205. https://www.springer.com/journal/11412
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Qualitative episode analysis of negotiation-space contributions of two groups, using Mercer's talk typology as a heuristic frame. The authors argue students "used language to open up a space for thinking together", finding communality while allowing reasoned disagreement.
"To conclude, it seems that, in this first episode, the students showed many features of Exploratory Talk, in the same way as Mercer and colleagues described."
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Related Claims¶
- Specific pedagogic design characteristics supported students' joint interaction in the wiki: initial text propositions, Thinking Together preparation, a collectively created artefact, and asynchrony — related
- Middle episodes of wiki text generation show a cumulative orientation, later with co-construction, in which students expand and re-elaborate each other's ideas — related
- The final episode of wiki collaborative writing is characterised by a disputational orientation, possibly driven by time pressure to finish the text — related
- Primary students' wiki negotiation contains collaboration and reasoning keywords distributed throughout the interaction — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- A wiki with a thinking-together approach can provide a dialogic space in which students co-construct shared understanding — a broader claim this one bears on
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Wiki negotiation unfolds in four episodes with distinct intersubjective orientations, beginning with an exploratory orientation during content generation |
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Wiki negotiation unfolds in four episodes with distinct intersubjective orientations, beginning with an exploratory orientation during content generation |
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