Resources [May 12, 2011, 8:18 p.m.]
We'll keep a running compilation of all course resources here, as far as it is useful. Please feel free to edit, organize, add summaries or reviews.
WK 1
Course Readings:
Suggested Readings:
- Education for the 21st Century
- Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age
- From communities of practice to microrhizae
- Institutional Ecology, Translations, and Coherence: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939
- Etienne Wenger’s thesis.
- Wenger, Etienne (1998) 'Communities of Practice. Learning as a social system',Systems Thinker.
WK 2
Course Readings:
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CSCL on EduTechWiki
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Community of practice on EduTechWiki
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Situated learning on EduTechWiki
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CSCL: An Historical Perspective. by Gerry Stahl, Timothy Koschmann and Daniel Suthers based on a chapter in: R. K. Sawyer (Ed.). (2006). Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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Technology affordances for intersubjective learning: a thematic agenda for CSCL. by Dan Suthers. In Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years! (CSCL '05). International Society of the Learning Sciences 662-671.
Suggested Readings:
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"Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors: Student-centered strategies for revolutionizing e-learning" (working on getting some sort of access)
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Women into Science, Engineering and Construction - works with industry and education to inspire girls and attract them into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) studies and careers.
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John Dron. Achieving self-organization in network-based learning environments (PhD thesis)
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Resnick, M. (1996) Beyond the Centralized Mindset Journal of the Learning Sciences, 5.1., 1-22.
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Resnick, M. (1994) Changing the Centralized Mind. Technology Review
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Herbert Simon. "Near decomposability and complexity"
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Dron, J. “Achieving self-organisation in network-based learning environments” (Ph D thesis)
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Joe’s own Paragogy Paper
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"Teaching for Understanding" - framework
WK 3
Course Readings:
- Stahl, G. (2010)How to study group cognition In S. Puntambekar, G. Erkens & C. Hmelo-Silver (Eds.), Analyzing interactions in CSCL: Methodologies, approaches and issues.
- Stahl, G. (2010) Social practices of group cognition in virtual math teams. In S. Ludvigsen, A. Lund & R. Säljö (Eds.), Learning in social practices, ICT and new artifacts - transformation of social and cultural practices. Pergamon
Suggested Readings:
- Group Cognition: http://www.gerrystahl.net/mit/stahl%20group%20cognition.pdf
- Sustaining group cognition in a math chat environment: http://gerrystahl.net/pub/rptel.
- Katheryn Sutter (CivicSense) - Open Governance and Learning.
- Miranda Joseph, Against The Romance Of Community, 1st ed. (Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2002). See comments/summary: http://onthecommunity.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/reading-notes-introduction-miranda-joseph-against-the-romance-of-community/
- Michel Foucault, Technologies of the Self
- Cole, M. & Wertsch (2004). Beyond the Individual-Social Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky. Retrieved from http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock//virtual/colevyg.htm
- Dockett, S. & Perry, B. (1996). Young Children’s Construction of Knowledge, Australian Journal of Early Childhood 21(4), p. 6-11.
- Papert, S. (1999). Child Psychologist Jean Piaget. Time Special Edition 2000. Retrieved from http://www.ordiecole.com/piaget2.html (audio translation provided courtesy of the University of Geneva’s Archives: Jean Piaget).
- Smith, L. (1989). Changing Perspectives in Developmental Psychology. In C. DesForges (Ed.), Early Childhood Education, Monograph Series No. 4, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
- Wood, E. & Bennett, N. (1998). Teachers’ Theories of Play: Constructivist or Social Constructivist? Early Child Development and Care 140 p. 17-30.
- Benoit Mandelbrot (1967)How long is the coast of Britain? Statistical self-similarity and fractional dimension
- John Lewis Gaddis. (2002) The Landscape of History. USA: Oxford University Press.
- An open badge system framework
WK 4
Course Readings:
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Scardamalia, M., & Bereiter, C. (2006). Knowledge building: Theory, pedagogy, and technology. In K. Sawyer (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences (pp. 97-118). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Stahl, G. (2002). Contributions to a theoretical framework for CSCL, Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2002), Boulder, CO, pp. 62-71.
Supplemental Readings:
- A Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology on Knowledge Buildling(Fall 2010) (36)1. (all articles available).
- Zhang, J., Scardamalia, S., Reeve, R., & Messina, R. (2009). Designs for Collective Cognitive Responsibility in Knowledge-Building Communities
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