 | 1. Form a research community with expertise to study issues in the research hypothesis.
| 2. Interpret texts like Vygotsky & Lave thru close textual interpretation.
| 3. Analyze terms like mediation, alienation, commodification, external memory, tool, symbol.
| 4. Evolve the community, so individual knowledge, skills, & perspectives are shared by the group.
| a. Provide computational symbolic tools for mediating cognition -- e.g., to make discussions persistent.
| b. Provide tools for negotiating among individual & group perspectives.
| c. Design uses of the latest web technology to support cognitive needs of the community -- self-reflective, participatory design. | | | | | | |