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Pitfall 2: Restricting Social Interaction to Cognitive Processes
- Educators who recognize the first pitfall tend to limit their actions to the task context focusing on learning tasks and educational dimension and educational dimension focusing on cognitive processes—this is not enough
- For students to have positive collaborative experiences in which they can offer ideas to their peers, critique ideas, and accept constructive criticism, certain prerequisite conditions must be present: a feeling of trust, a feeling of warmth and belonging, and feeling of closeness with peers.
- Therefore, educators must stress the significance of relationship building and sharing a sense of community with a common goal.
- Since there is a social psychological aspect to social interaction within collaborative learning that concern a socio-emotional aspect of group forming and group dynamic, it is a pitfall to restrict social interaction to the cognitive process of learning.
- Modern CSCL environments do not seem to provide sufficient opportunities for successful social interaction to occur because these environments strictly focus on educational dimension and overlook to social dimension that exists within it.
- Formula: Valued Learning Experience = F (Pedagogy; Content; Community)
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Updated 2021-06-06
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