Introducing New Perspectives in the Use of Social Technologies in Learning: Social Constructionism - Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013
Conference Papers Year : 2013

Introducing New Perspectives in the Use of Social Technologies in Learning: Social Constructionism

Abstract

This paper reports on a qualitative study of the use of social technologies, explored in the context of an intensive 650-hour Greek language course. Qualitative content analysis of instructors’ field notes, students’ and instructors’ reflections, interviews and a focus group was employed aiming at identifying the use of social technologies as a platform for constructing an online artifact. To triangulate the findings, the study also collected data by observing students’ activity with social technologies. A code scheme was developed which manifests the use of social technologies as a social constructionism platform identifying its major dimensions: exploration of ideas, construction of online artifact and evaluation of the constructed artifact. Actions within each dimension that indicate the manifestation of social constructionism are identified and discussed. This study revealed results in favor of the use of social technologies as social constructing platforms suggesting a new framework for their use.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
978-3-642-40480-1_39_Chapter.pdf (345.03 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origin Files produced by the author(s)
Loading...

Dates and versions

hal-01501772 , version 1 (04-04-2017)

Licence

Identifiers

Cite

Antigoni Parmaxi, Panayiotis Zaphiris, Eleni Michailidou, Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous, Andri Ioannou. Introducing New Perspectives in the Use of Social Technologies in Learning: Social Constructionism. 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Sep 2013, Cape Town, South Africa. pp.554-570, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_39⟩. ⟨hal-01501772⟩
199 View
181 Download

Altmetric

Share

More