Specifying the dynamics of social technologies as social microworlds

Antigoni Parmaxi and Panayiotis Zaphiris

Behaviour and Information Technology, 2015, vol. 34, issue 4, 413-424

Abstract: This paper explores the affordances of social technologies for supporting the construction of a shareable artefact by a group of learners. A qualitative study that captures the use of five different types of social technologies (Facebook, blogs, wikis, Google Documents and Dropbox) in three different classroom settings sheds light on the potentials and challenges of these tools for supporting material exploration, artefact construction and evaluation. Qualitative content analysis of instructors’ field notes, students’ and instructors’ reflections, interviews and focus groups sheds light on the potential of social technologies to transform the activity of learning across a new culture of computational tools. The affordances of social technologies are discussed as well as design principles that need to be followed in these new arenas.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2015.1004650

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