Grade 5 Science students predominantly engaged in fact-oriented, repetitive, and cumulative discourse, suggesting difficulty sustaining conversational exchanges online¶

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q2 i? The G5S view had 25 narrative units, including 22 knowledge-sharing units and three knowledge-construction units, with students mostly engaging in fact-oriented, repetitive, and cumulative discourse. → Fu 2016

Evidence¶

Fu 2016¶

Fu, E. L. F., van Aalst, J., & Chan, C. K. K. (2016). Toward a classification of discourse patterns in asynchronous online discussions. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 11, 441-478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-016-9245-3

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Narrative analysis of the Grade 5 Science view (38 students, 346 notes over seven weeks) found 25 narrative units, of which 22 were knowledge-sharing and three knowledge-construction. The authors suggest students Bmight not have known how to engage in conversational exchanges in online environments.

"The G5S view had 25 narrative units, including 22 knowledge-sharing units and three knowledge-construction units. Students mostly engaged in fact-oriented, repetitive, and cumulative discourse, suggesting they tended to accumulate factual knowledge, and might not have known how to engage in conversational exchanges in online environments."

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