Action Research

Dervin-ACTION RESEARCH IN AN AWARD BEARING COURSE

…Teacher action research is a systematic and intentional inquiry by

teachers in order to make sense of their practices and improve them. This

suggests a criterion to do with the intention of the research that is not

usually applied in other types of research.

Pdf-downloadable- http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/T356423X22805136.pdf

Distributive learning

Dist, cogtion

Chris dede

Paul

Reasoning why we are using Second Life?

A Social-Cognitive Framework for Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions

From:

http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.lib.pepperdine.edu/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml?_requestid=33218

Abstract:

Teaching and learning are highly social activities. Seminal psychologists such as Vygotsky, Piaget, and Bandura have theorized that social interaction is a key mechanism in the process of learning and development. In particular, the benefits of peer interaction for learning and motivation in classrooms have been broadly demonstrated through empirical studies. Hence, it would be valuable if computer-based environments could support a mechanism for a peer interaction. Though no claim of peer equivalence is made, pedagogical agents as learning companions (PALs)--animated digital characters functioning to simulate human-peer-like interaction--might provide an opportunity to simulate such social interaction in computer-based learning. In this article we ground the instructional potential of PALs in several social-cognitive theories, including distributed cognition, social interaction, and Bandura's social-cognitive theory.