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Our interest is in methods used by participants in a Problem-based Learning (PBL) tutorial to recognize and mark a problem in shared understanding. We investigate how this is accomplished in a distributed meeting conducted via a chat interface. Doing so poses an interactional problem for participants and the sorts of solutions that they work out is our object of study here. We observe that a shared understanding becomes problematic through what we term a problematizing move. For an utterance to serve as a problematizing move, however, it must be followed by an uptake move on the part of one or more interlocutors. We argue that the methods members employ for problematizing problems are both important elements of what it means to do PBL and visible aspects of how learning itself is accomplished as a socially-organized practice.
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Koschmann, T., Zemel, A., Conlee-Stevens, M., Young, N., Robbs, J., Barnhart, A. (2003). Problematizing the Problem. In: Wasson, B., Ludvigsen, S., Hoppe, U. (eds) Designing for Change in Networked Learning Environments. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0195-2_7
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