Stahl, G. (2009). "Studying Virtual Math Teams." New York, NY: Springer. 626 pages.
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This book presents a coherent research agenda that has been pursued by the author and his research group. The book opens with descriptions of the project and its methodology, as well as situating this research in the past and present context of the CSCL research field. The core research team then presents five concrete analyses of group interactions in different phases of the Virtual Math Teams research project. These chapters are followed by several studies by international collaborators, discussing the group discourse, the software affordances and alternative representations of the interaction, all using data from the VMT project. The concluding chapters address implications for the theory of group cognition and for the methodology of the learning sciences. In addition to substantial introductory and concluding chapters, this important new book includes analyses based upon the author's previous research, thereby providing smooth continuity and an engaging flow that follows the progression of the research.
The VMT project has dual goals: (a) to provide a source of experience and data for practical and theoretical explorations of group knowledge building and (b) to develop an effective online environment and educational service for collaborative learning of mathematics. Studying Virtual Math Teams reflects these twin orientations, reviewing the intertwined aims and development of a rigorous science of small-group cognition and a Web 2.0 educational math service. It documents the kinds of interactional methods that small groups use to explore math issues and provides a glimpse into the potential of online interaction to promote productive math discourse.
These are the only errata in the published version known to the author as of the latest update of this page. They have been corrected in the pre-publication version. Please notify the author at Gerry@GerryStahl.net if you discover any additional errors.
p. 5 bottom: “four” => “five”
p. 114: add “drawing actions”
p. 129 top: Komis’
p. 149: 139 I believe so Ref to 128
p. 174: .54 ish => 4.54 ish
p. 250: peppers => pepperoni
p. 270: it’s => its
p. 363: 19 => 47
p. 363: 88 => 55
Pre-publication metadata for author was “Gerry G. Stahl” should be “Gerry Stahl”
Pre-publication metadata for title was “Exploring Group Cognition: Virtual Math Teams” should be “Studying Virtual Math Teams”
Metadata for Alan Zemel has arz27@drexel.edu rather than arz26@drexel.edu
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1. A chat about chat
2. The VMT vision
3. Mathematical discourse as group cognition
4. Interactional methods and social practices in VMT
5. From individual representations to group cognition
6. The sequential co-construction of the joint problem space (Johann W. Sarmiento)
7. The joint organization of visual, narrative and symbolic interactions (Murat Perit Cakir)
8. Question co-construction in VMT chats(Nan Zhou)
9. Resolving differences of perspective in a VMT session (Ramon Prudencio S. Toledo)
10. Representational practices in VMT (Richard Medina, Dan Suthers & Ravi Vatrapu)
11. Group agency in a VMT session (Elizabeth S. Charles & Wesley Shumar)
12. Group creativity in VMT (Johann W. Sarmiento)
13. Inscriptions, mathematical ideas and reasoning in VMT (Arthur B. Powell & Frank Lai)
14. Reading's work in VMT (Alan Zemel & Murat Cakir)
15. The integration of dual interaction spaces (Martin Muehlpfordt & Martin Wessner)
16. designing a mix of synchronous and asynchronous media for VMT
17.Deictic referencing in VMT
18. Scripting group processes in VMT
19. Helping agents in VMT (Yue Cui, Rohit Kumar, Sourish Chaudhuri, Gahgene Gweon & Carolyn Rosé)
20. Thread-based analysis of patterns in VMT (Murat Cakir, Fatos Xhafa & Nan Zhou)
21. Studying response-structure confusion in VMT (Hugo Fuks)
22. A multi-dimensional coding procedure for VMT (Jan-Willem Strijbos)
23. Combining coding and conversation analysis of VMT chats(Alan Zemel, Fatos Xhafa, Murat Cakir)
24. Polyphonic inter-animation of voices in VMT (Stefan Trausan-Matu & Traian Rebedea)
25. A model for analyzing math knowledge buiding in VMT (Juan Dee Wee & Chee-Kit Looi)
26. Meaning making in VMT
27. Critical ethnography in the VMT project (Terrence W. Epperson)
28. Toward a science of group cognition