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Virtual math teams project: using conversation analysis for collaborative math problem-solving chats

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Title
Virtual math teams project: using conversation analysis for collaborative math problem-solving chats
Author(s)
Toledo, Ramon Prudencio S.; Zemel, Alan; Zhou, Nan; Cakir, Murat Perit; Sarmiento, Johann W.
Keywords
Mathematics education; Computer mediated communication; Computer supported cooperative work; Instant messaging
Date
2005-09-09T13:59:12Z
Abstract
The Virtual Math Teams (VMT) project is an NSF-funded research program aimed at investigating the innovative use of online collaborative environments to support effective K-12 mathematics learning. Among the methods it uses is Conversation Analysis (CA) -- to identify and investigate the methods by which these students collaboratively solve math problems when using computer chat programs such as AOL® Instant Messenger™. Using CA, we treat problem-solving as an interactional achievement of participation rather than as an internal and private process of the individual. We examine chat logs and seek to describe, in detail, the publicly available and observable procedures by which these problem-solving collaborations are achieved. In these online, problem-solving chats, the production and distribution of text messages and – on occasion -- other artifacts such as drawings, diagrams, etc., constitute the principal resources for sense making for both participants and researchers. Interaction conducted through textually mediated technologies like AOL® Instant Messenger™ is both similar to and significantly different from speech-based conversational interaction in important ways. As a text-based method of conducting interaction, chat offers different affordances for problem solving. In analyzing chats, we have begun to identify and describe: - how multiple threading of chat interaction is used as a resource in problem solving, - ways that participants put forward and take up proposed problemsolving strategies, - how understanding and misunderstandings are done as interactional achievements in chat, - different ways that collaboration and cooperation are organized as participation frameworks.
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1860/537
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Drexel Research

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