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This paper presents a small-scale study where the use of a mobile-phone is proposed as part of an educational strategy, namely collaborative problem-solving. The study is viewed through the lens of cultural psychology and aims to develop an understanding of participants’ points of view in order to foster metareflection and meaning sharing. A class of 20 students from a Pedagogical Lyceum (average age 17) was involved. Students were asked to use their mobile phones to record moments they considered representative of their problem solving performance whilst working in groups. Seven videos were collected and analyzed by two independent researchers. The videos were segmented into 12 meaningful episodes and four categories were extracted. A few weeks later the groups who had produced the videos were required to watch, categorize, and comment on them. A fairly good overlap between students’ and researchers’ interpretations as well as those generated between groups was retrieved. Therefore the four categories could be considered as representing students’ perceptions of collaborative problem-solving strategies. Furthermore, information about students’ meta-reflection was gathered.
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Ligorio, M.B. (2008). Mobile Phones to Enhance Reflection Upon Collaborative Problem-Solving. In: Zumbach, J., Schwartz, N., Seufert, T., Kester, L. (eds) Beyond Knowledge: The Legacy of Competence. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8827-8_10
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