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Functional system incorporating tools as the unit of analysis for CSCL microanalysis

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Arnseth and Krange argue, building on Vygotsky and Wertsch, that "the unit of analysis needs to be a functional system incorporating tools." This stance opens up understanding of the multiplicity of activities, in which collaboration between students and computational tools can take multiple paths, and analysts must understand how participants orient themselves through a series of activities and why they choose specific paths. The editors present it as grounding ethnographic description combined with detailed turn-by-turn interaction analysis of upper-secondary students' inquiry into energy phenomena.

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  • Functional system incorporating tools as the unit of analysis for CSCL microanalysis: Arnseth and Krange argue, building on Vygotsky and Wertsch, that "the unit of analysis needs to be a functional system incorporating tools." This stance opens up understanding of the multiplicity of activities, in which collaboration between students and computational tools can take multiple paths, and analysts must understand how participants orient themselves through a series of activities and why they choose specific paths. The editors present it as grounding ethnographic description combined with detailed turn-by-turn interaction analysis of upper-secondary students' inquiry into energy phenomena. (Sten Ludvigsen et al. (2016))

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  • Sten Ludvigsen, Ulrike Cress, Nancy Law, Carolyn P. Rosé, & Gerry Stahl. (2016). Collaboration scripts and scaffolding. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 11, 381–385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-016-9247-1
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title Functional system incorporating tools as the unit of analysis for CSCL microanalysis
description Arnseth and Krange argue, building on Vygotsky and Wertsch, that "the unit of analysis needs to be a functional system incorporating tools." This stance opens up understanding of the multiplicity of activities, in which collaboration between students and computational tools can take multiple paths,
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