TY - JOUR
T1 - Re-appropriating a question/answer system to support dialectical constructivist learning activity
AU - Carroll, John M.
AU - Wu, Yu
AU - Shih, Patrick C.
AU - Zheng, Saijing
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Association for Educational Communications and Technology.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - Learning can be engaged by dialectic, that is, by identifying pros and cons that inhere in propositions, and more generally, by raising questions about the validity of claims. We report here on a classroom case study of dialectical constructivist pedagogy: Students created dialectical analyses of two lectures and four books as core activities in a freshman seminar “Information, People and Technology”. We adapted the functionality of Piazza, a free wiki-style question–answer course management infrastructure, and Toulmin argumentation structures to organize and facilitate these dialectical learning activities. In this paper, we motivate this approach, describe our implementation of it, and present interaction log data and content analysis of Piazza debates, and analysis of student self-reflections on learning activity and consequences, to assess issues in this approach, and directions for further instructional design and research.
AB - Learning can be engaged by dialectic, that is, by identifying pros and cons that inhere in propositions, and more generally, by raising questions about the validity of claims. We report here on a classroom case study of dialectical constructivist pedagogy: Students created dialectical analyses of two lectures and four books as core activities in a freshman seminar “Information, People and Technology”. We adapted the functionality of Piazza, a free wiki-style question–answer course management infrastructure, and Toulmin argumentation structures to organize and facilitate these dialectical learning activities. In this paper, we motivate this approach, describe our implementation of it, and present interaction log data and content analysis of Piazza debates, and analysis of student self-reflections on learning activity and consequences, to assess issues in this approach, and directions for further instructional design and research.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11423-015-9405-6
DO - 10.1007/s11423-015-9405-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84955688850
SN - 1042-1629
VL - 64
SP - 137
EP - 156
JO - Educational Technology Research and Development
JF - Educational Technology Research and Development
IS - 1
ER -