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INFO 782 — Spring 2009 — Gerry Stahl
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You Tube: “Information R/evolution” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM
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Outline of this week’s class YouTube: “A vision of students today” Course overview (and Blackboard demo) Form small groups Introductions of students & instructor Theories of information & human thinking Information & education YouTube: “Information R/evolution” Information science Information and users YouTube: “The machine is us/ing us”
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“Social theories of information systems relevant to computer support for collaborative information behavior”
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information systems for group use as computational artifacts as informational resources how they are: designed, enacted, diffused, adopted, evolved within social settings
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post-cognitivist theories social constructivism, activity theory, situated cognition, distributed cognition, actor-network theory, ethnomethodology, group cognition
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texts & con-texts [RCA] Ackerman, M., Halverson, C., Erickson, T., & Kellogg, W. (2008). Resources, co-evolution and artifacts: Theory in CSCW. London, UK: Springer. [purchase] [GC] Stahl, G. (2006). Group cognition: Computer support for building collaborative knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Series on Acting with Technology. Available from http://GerryStahl.net/mit/. [purchase or download]http://GerryStahl.net/mit/ [SVMT] Stahl, G. (Ed.). (in press). Studying virtual math teams. New York, NY: Springer. Computer-supported collaborative learning book series, vol. 11. Available from http://GerryStahl.net/vmt/book. [download] http://GerryStahl.net/vmt/book Other readings [download in Blackboard]
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Weekly readings Before noon Saturday, post reviews (200-400 words each) of 2 readings in Blackboard discussion Before midnight Monday, post evaluations (75-150 words each) of 3 reviews in Blackboard discussion Before class, read other people’s reviews & evaluations Bring questions to class: mysterious words, incomprehensible sentences, confusing arguments
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Individual assignments 4. Midterm reflection paper 9. Final reflection paper
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Group assignments Each week, meet with your group online in your group’s Blackboard virtual classroom With chat With whiteboard for outlining ideas Prepare to present one of the readings
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Group assignments Group A: Group B: Group C: Group D: Group E:
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Some info about the users of this course’s info Take 5 minutes to interview your neighbor in the classroom Then stand up with your neighbor and briefly introduce her/him to the class Name; something about their interest in informatics; something about their career; what they hope to get out or this course
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The Blackboard information system http://drexel.blackboard.com/webapp s/portal/frameset.jsp http://drexel.blackboard.com/webapp s/portal/frameset.jsp
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A brief history of thought: info, knowledge, truth & human cognition
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Plato’s philosophy Starting point for Western thought, science & technology Truth, knowledge, learning, wisdom Education takes the student out of the common-sense world through stages and the student must struggle to make sense A world of ideas, concepts, theory that sheds light on empirical sense perception
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Western philosophy (500 bc– 2009 ad), then social theory Greek: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle Latinized Aristotelian Christian theology Descartes (cogito ergo sum) Empiricism vs rationalism Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx Behaviorism, cognitivism, post-cognitivism
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Plato distinguished the common-sense world of shadows from the realm of true knowledge, consisting of the general forms or concepts of things The medieval Christian realms of heaven/earth Descartes separation of mind and body Empiricism (sense perception & induction) vs rationalism (logic, predictive science & deduction) Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx (people constitute the world socially)
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Introspective psychology: What do we experience about how we think? Bias, rationalization, no implicit processes Behaviorism in the 1930’s-1950’s: Pavlov dogs, Skinner rats & pidgeons learn by conditioned reflexes; drill & practice in education Cognitivism in the 1960’s-1980’s: The human mind interprets and constructs understanding of the world Post-cognitivism in the 1990’s-2010’s: Not a purely rational, individual process of mental representations & models; tacit knowledge, interpersonal interaction, cultural practices
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The readings Intro to domains of groups & information Social informatics CSCW CSCL Current (post-cognitivist) theories of information artifacts & systems Activity theory (Vygotsky, Engestrom) Ethnomethodology (Garfinkel) Situated & distributed cognition (Hutchins) Actor-network theory (Latour) Group cognition (Stahl)
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Philosophies and scientific paradigms led to: Multi-disciplinary approaches, like cognitive sciences, learning sciences, information sciences, social informatics, CSCW, CSCL, … Different theories of learning, education, scientific method, software designs There were also larger social changes: war, prosperity, ideologies, technologies, etc. Can you follow the connections, overlaps, differences, application areas, holes?
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Questions? You should have lots of questions now. Many of them will be addressed in the readings … Then you will have even deeper questions … (I hope)
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