Computer-mediated epistemic interactions for co-constructing scientific notions: Lessons learned from a five-year research programme.

Michael Baker (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) , Erica de Vries (6, 7) , Kristine Lund (5) , Matthieu Quignard (8)

1 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2 LEAPLCE - Laboratoire d'études sur l'acquisition et la pathologie du langage chez l'enfant
3 MoDyCo - Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus
4 GRIC 5 - Groupe de Recherches sur les Interactions Communicatives
5 ICAR - Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations
6 LSE - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Éducation (Grenoble)
7 LPE- UMR 8069 - Laboratoire de Psychologie environnementale
8 ENS-LSH - Ecole normale supérieure, Lettres et Sciences humaines

This paper reports on a five-year collaborative research programme, the aim of which was to create Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments that favoured and supported the production of epistemic interactions for the co-construction of scientific notions. Three systems (C-CHENE, CONNECT and DAMOCLES) were developed and experimented with science problem-solving tasks within constraints of the French secondary school curriculum. A number of issues were explored in relation to our research goals, including: structuring the communication interface, statistically or automatically constituting dyads to favour conceptual confrontation, summarising points to be debated, and studying/defining the teacher's multiple roles in CSCL contexts. We discuss limitations of our research and bring out lessons that have been learned from this research programme, concerning notably: freedom and constraint in the communication interface, structuring collaborative problem-solving sequences, richness and negotiability of environments, interrelations between cognitive, epistemic and social dimensions of interaction, and evolution of new educational practices.

Mots clés: interaction; argumentation; explanation; conceptual learning in science; computer mediated communication

Domaines: Education

Michael Baker, Erica de Vries, Kristine Lund, Matthieu Quignard. Computer-mediated epistemic interactions for co-constructing scientific notions: Lessons learned from a five-year research programme.. European Perspectives on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 2001, 2001, Maastricht, Netherlands. pp.89-96. ⟨halshs-00376670⟩