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• Record Nr.: UNICASUFI0294404
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London \etc.!, : Oxford University Press, 1968
• Descrizione fisica: P. VI, 494-945, 1 c. di tav. ; 23 cm.
• Disciplina: 821.1
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Group cognition : computer support for building collaborative knowledge / / Gerry Stahl

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777514403321
• Autore: Stahl Gerry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006
• ISBN: 0-262-29262-9; 9786612096778; 0-262-25702-5; 1-282-09677-X; 1-4237-7450-7
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 510 p. : ill
• Collana: Acting with technology
• Classificazione: 54.61; 81.68
• Disciplina: 371.33/4
• Soggetti: Computer-assisted instruction; Computer networks
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-498) and indexes.
• Sommario/riassunto: Innovative uses of global and local networks of linked computers make ; new ways of collaborative working, learning, and acting possible. In Group Cognition Gerry Stahl explores the technological and social reconfigurations that are needed to achieve computer-supported collaborative knowledge building--group cognition that transcends the limits of individual cognition. Computers can provide active media for social group cognition where ideas grow through the interactions within groups of people; software functionality can manage group discourse that results in shared understandings, new meanings, and collaborative learning. Stahl offers software design prototypes, analyzes empirical instances of collaboration, and elaborates a theory of collaboration that takes the group, rather than the individual, as the unit of analysis. Stahl's design studies concentrate on mechanisms to support group formation, multiple interpretive perspectives, and the negotiation of group knowledge in applications as varied as collaborative curriculum development by teachers, writing summaries by students, and designing space voyages by NASA engineers. His empirical analysis shows how, in small-group collaborations, the group constructs intersubjective knowledge that emerges from and appears in the discourse itself. This discovery of group meaning becomes the springboard for Stahl's outline of a social theory of collaborative knowing. Stahl also discusses such related issues as the distinction between meaning making at the group level and interpretation at the individual level, appropriate research methodology, philosophical directions for group cognition theory, and suggestions for further empirical work.

Accidental Soldier : A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910156423003321
• Autore: Sasson Dorit
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : She Writes Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 9781631520365; 1631520369
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.0092
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: At age nineteen, Dorit Sasson, a dual American-Israeli citizen, was trying to make the status quo work as a college student-until she realized that if she didn't distance herself from her neurotic, worrywart of a mother, she would become just like her. Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces is Sasson's story of how she dropped out of college and volunteered for the Israel Defense Forces in an effort to change her life-and how, in stepping out of her comfort zone and into a war zone, she discovered courage and faith she didn't know she was capable of.