Purely peer groups working purposefully out-of-reach problems did not fully succeed but still made significant progress, internalizable by individual members¶
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q1 i? Purely peer groups did not fully succeed in the purposefully out-of-reach goal, but nevertheless forged significant steps in working on the problem. → Gerry Stahl 2008
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Gerry Stahl 2008¶
Gerry Stahl. (2008). Yes we can! Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-008-9055-3
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This is the editorial author's Vygotksian interpretation of the productive-failure study, an authors'-interpretation line rather than a tested result: peer groups, unlike adult-guided examples, did "not fully succeed" yet forged significant steps individuals could make their own.
"The fact that these were purely peer groups — unlike in V ygotsky's examples — accounts for the fact that they did not fully succeed in the purposefully out-of-reach goal, but they nevertheless forged significant steps in working on the problem."
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Related Claims¶
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Purely peer groups working purposefully out-of-reach problems did not fully succeed but still made significant progress, internalizable by individual members |
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Purely peer groups working purposefully out-of-reach problems did not fully succeed but still made significant progress, internalizable by individual members |
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