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Winning Position: Social Presence
What are the 3-5 most important techniques that instructors can use to establish social presence?
Winning Position: Team3: Yes, it is substantial
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Team3: Yes, it is substantial
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Team4: No, it is incidental
[Team3/4] Collaboration is a substantial asset in building new knowledge.Some say that the social nature of learning provides natural mechanisms and
supports for developing new ideas, integrating new concepts and building new
competencies. Designers of CSCL should focus on making sure that students
interact effectively and have a positive social experience during their
lessons. Others say that though students learn with and from each other, this social nature of
learning is incidental to the primary tasks of examining and making sense of
the subject matter. Designers of CSCL should focus on making sure that students
interact effectively with the subject matter and use social interaction as a
way to reinforce the direct learning that students do in the subject matter. What is your argument? Provide your reasoning with evidence.
Winning Position: Team3: Yes, it is substantial
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Team3: Yes, it is substantial
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Team4: No, it is incidental
Some say that the social nature of learning provides natural mechanisms and supports for developing new ideas, integrating new concepts and building new competencies. Designers of CSCL should focus on making sure that students interact effectively and have a positive social experience during their lessons. Others say that though students learn with and from each other, this social nature of learning is incidental to the primary tasks of examining and making sense of the subject matter. Designers of CSCL should focus on making sure that students interact effectively with the subject matter and use social interaction as a way to reinforce the direct learning that students do in the subject matter. What is your argument? Provide your reasoning with evidence.
Tied Positions: Team4: No, it is incidental vs. Team3: Yes, it is substantial
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Team4: No, it is incidental
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Team3: Yes, it is substantial
Some say that the social nature of learning provides natural mechanisms and supports for developing new ideas, integrating new concepts and building new competencies. Designers of CSCL should focus on making sure that students interact effectively and have a positive social experience during their lessons. Others say that though students learn with and from each other, this social nature of learning is incidental to the primary tasks of examining and making sense of the subject matter. Designers of CSCL should focus on making sure that students interact effectively with the subject matter and use social interaction as a way to reinforce the direct learning that students do in the subject matter. What is your argument? Provide your reasoning with evidence.
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Winning Position: Team4: No, it is incidental
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Team4: No, it is incidental
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Team3: Yes, it is substantial
Some say that the social nature of learning provides natural mechanisms and
supports for developing new ideas, integrating new concepts and building new
competencies. Designers of CSCL should focus on making sure that students
interact effectively and have a positive social experience during their
lessons. Others say that though students learn with and from each other, this social nature of
learning is incidental to the primary tasks of examining and making sense of
the subject matter. Designers of CSCL should focus on making sure that students
interact effectively with the subject matter and use social interaction as a
way to reinforce the direct learning that students do in the subject matter. What is your argument? Provide your reasoning with evidence.
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