Connecting Agents and Artifacts in CSCL: Towards a Rationale of Mutual Shaping

Autor/inn/en	Overdijk, Maarten; van Diggelen, Wouter; Kirschner, Paul A.; Baker, Michael
Titel	Connecting Agents and Artifacts in CSCL: Towards a Rationale of Mutual Shaping
Quelle	In: International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 7 (2012) 2, S.193-210 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1556-1607
DOI	10.1007/s11412-012-9143-2
Schlagwörter	Educational Theories; Educational Research; Research Methodology; Cooperative Learning; Computer Assisted Instruction; Educational Technology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Kooperatives Lernen; Computer based training; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	Studying how collaborative activity takes shape interactionally in the context of technological settings is one of the main challenges in the field of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). It requires us, amongst other things, to look into the "black box" of how technical artifacts are brought into use, or rather, how they are attuned to, interacted with, and shaped in various and varied practices. This article explores the establishment of a purposeful connection of human agents and technical artifacts in CSCL, that we call "the agent-artifact connection". In order to contribute to a grounded conception of this connection, we reviewed three theoretical positions: affordance, structures and instrument. Although these three positions differ in how they conceptualise the connection, they share the assumption that a technical artifact carries a potential for action that becomes available when artifact and agent connect, and that the availability of action opportunities is relative to the ones who interact with the artifact. In this article, we map out the conceptual and methodological implications for each of the positions. We argue that the rationale of "shaping" collaborative interactions that underlies a part of CSCL research should be replaced by a rationale of "mutual shaping" of human agents and technical artifacts. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10