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)¶

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q2 i? When students choose among alternative historical materials under time pressure, a shortcut toward group understanding can bypass one member's uncertainty, leaving intersubjectivity with partial agreement and a gap between the social and technology objects. → 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

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Interaction analysis (Extract 3) of group 7 choosing between two aerial photos: Nora's questioning utterance ("Is it from 1947?!") was ignored, and the group chose the older picture. The authors interpret the episode as a gap between social and technology objects preventing seamless integration into a knowledge object.

"When students get stuck in time-consuming technical problem-solving, academic issues are backgrounded. In this case, the group's intersubjectivity proceeded with partial agreement."

Discussion¶

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