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Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research
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This chapter discusses the emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning and the zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research.Abstract:
1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.read more
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ACTIVITY ANALYSIS AS A METHOD FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: General Introduction and Experiments from Nigeria and Finland
TL;DR: It is argued that compared to currently used methods in the earliest and latest “phases” of systems development, Activity Analysis and Development is comprehensive, theoretically well founded, detailed and practicable.
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The Effects of Mobile-Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Meta-Analysis and Critical Synthesis:
TL;DR: mCSCL has produced meaningful improvements for collaborative learning, with an overall mean effect size of 0.516, and Moderator variables, such as domain subject, group size, teaching method, intervention duration, and reward method were related to different effect sizes.
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Teachers as Designers of Technology Enhanced Learning.
TL;DR: This special issue presents the work of a large collaborative group of researchers, which, since 2012, has explored divergence and convergence among multiple research projects involving teachers as designers of technology enhanced learning (TaD of TEL), and has endeavored to extend existing knowledge to strengthen TaD ofTEL as a field of research.
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A View of Software Development Environments Based on Activity Theory
TL;DR: An analysis and evaluation of the collaborative capabilities of software development environments using an activity theory perspective is presented and the issues and ideas surrounding activity theory may be useful in improving support for collaboration in software engineering techniques and tools.
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Support for the sense-making activity of managers
Helen Hasan,Edward Gould +1 more
TL;DR: A new approach to the study of senior managers' use of knowledge for decision making is described using the cultural-historical activity theory, which takes activity, mediated by tools and the community, as the basic component in purposeful human work.
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, Cole and Scribner discuss the role of play in children's development and play as a tool and symbol in the development of perception and attention in a prehistory of written language.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, and adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in numerical prediction when a relevant value is available.
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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
Barry Checkoway,Donald A. Schön +1 more
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Thought and language
TL;DR: Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions as discussed by the authors.