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Successful Knowledge Building Needs Group Awareness: Interaction Analysis of a 9th Grade CSCL Biology Lesson

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Productive Multivocality in the Analysis of Group Interactions

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This chapter presents an analysis of chat protocols from four 9th grade biology classrooms with 50 students at a Public School in Pittsburgh, PA. Particular aspects of knowledge building processes in small computer-supported groups are described and explained. We provide examples from the chat protocols that hint at successful knowledge building and from which we can learn something about how the development of knowledge takes place. Moreover, we provide examples that illustrate why four types of group awareness (social, action, activity, and knowledge awareness) are crucial for collaboration, why a lack of group awareness may be detrimental to CSCL, and which strategies students will apply in order to establish group awareness and common ground. Concluding, we point to implications for future design processes of CSCL scenarios.

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  1. Knowledge Media Research Center, Schleichstr. 6, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany

    Ulrike Cress

  2. Department of Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Joachim Kimmerle

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  1. Dept. of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    Daniel D. Suthers

  2. ICAR Research Lab, CNRS — University of Lyon, LYON, France

    Kristine Lund

  3. Language Technologies Inst. & HCI Inst., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Carolyn Penstein Rosé

  4. Problemshift, Inc., Windsor, Ontario, Canada

    Chris Teplovs

  5. University of Hong Kong Centre for Info. Technology in Education, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    Nancy Law

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Cress, U., Kimmerle, J. (2013). Successful Knowledge Building Needs Group Awareness: Interaction Analysis of a 9th Grade CSCL Biology Lesson. In: Suthers, D., Lund, K., Rosé, C., Teplovs, C., Law, N. (eds) Productive Multivocality in the Analysis of Group Interactions. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8960-3_27

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