Cumulative, disputational, and exploratory talk types together mediated students' enactment of makerspace knowledge practices¶
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q2 i? Cumulative, disputational, and exploratory forms of talk functioned as mediational means across the orienting, interpreting, concretizing, and expanding practices, together with material artifacts. → Anu Kajamaa & Kristiina Kumpulainen 2020
Evidence¶
Anu Kajamaa & Kristiina Kumpulainen 2020¶
Anu Kajamaa & Kristiina Kumpulainen. (2020). Students' multimodal knowledge practices in a makerspace learning environment. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2020) 15:411–444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-020-09337-z
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A closure statement from Episode 1 of the qualitative video analysis: all three talk types coded using sociocultural discourse analysis appeared as "mediational means" alongside artifacts in the boys' collaborative solving of the Laser Defender challenge. The article reports no statistical results for talk-type distribution.
"Cumulative, disputational, and exploratory types of talk were used as mediational means, together with multiple material artifacts, such as the toolbox, measuring tape, mirrors, laser pens and the video camera."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Students in a school-based makerspace enact four intertwined multimodal knowledge practices combining embodied action, talk, space and artifact use — related
- Students' makerspace knowledge practices are mediated multimodally by discourse, materials, embodied actions, and physical space — a broader claim this one bears on
- Emotional framing intensity is associated with types of talk in argumentation, with low-intensity framing linked to cumulative talk and high-intensity framing to disputational talk — related
- The intervention increased students' elaborated explanations and cumulative and exploratory talk — related
- An adjacent corridor served as an improvised spatial expansion of the makerspace mediating students' knowledge practices — related
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Cumulative, disputational, and exploratory talk types together mediated students' enactment of makerspace knowledge practices |
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Cumulative, disputational, and exploratory talk types together mediated students' enactment of makerspace knowledge practices |
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