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INFO 782 — Spring 2009 — Gerry Stahl
INFO 782 — Spring 2009 — Gerry Stahl
You Tube: “Information R/evolution”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM
Outline of this week’s class YouTube: “A vision of students today” Course overview (and Blackboard
demo) Form small groups Introductions of students & instructor Theories of information & human
thinking Information & education YouTube: “Information R/evolution” Information science Information and users YouTube: “The machine is us/ing us”
“Social theories of information
systems relevant to
computer support for collaborative
information behavior”
information systems for group use
as computational artifacts as informational resources
how they are: designed, enacted, diffused, adopted, evolved within social settings
post-cognitivist theories social constructivism,
activity theory, situated cognition, distributed cognition, actor-network theory, ethnomethodology, group cognition
texts & con-texts [RCA] Ackerman, M., Halverson, C., Erickson, T., &
Kellogg, W. (2008). Resources, co-evolution and artifacts: Theory in CSCW. London, UK: Springer. [purchase]
[GC] Stahl, G. (2006). Group cognition: Computer support for building collaborative knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Series on Acting with Technology. Available from http://GerryStahl.net/mit/. [purchase or download]
[SVMT] Stahl, G. (Ed.). (in press). Studying virtual math teams. New York, NY: Springer. Computer-supported collaborative learning book series, vol. 11. Available from http://GerryStahl.net/vmt/book. [download]
Other readings [download in Blackboard]
Weekly readings
Before noon Saturday, post reviews (200-400 words each) of 2 readings in Blackboard discussion
Before midnight Monday, post evaluations (75-150 words each) of 3 reviews in Blackboard discussion
Before class, read other people’s reviews & evaluations
Bring questions to class: mysterious words, incomprehensible sentences, confusing arguments
Individua
l assignmen
ts
4. Midterm reflection paper
9. Final reflection paper
Group
assignmen
ts
Each week, meet with your group online in your group’s Blackboard
virtual classroom With chat With whiteboard for outlining
ideas
Prepare to present one of the readings
Group assignments
Group A: Group B: Group C: Group D: Group E:
Some info about the users of this course’s info
Take 5 minutes to interview your neighbor in the classroom
Then stand up with your neighbor and briefly introduce her/him to the class
Name; something about their interest in informatics; something about their career; what they hope to get out or this course
The Blackboard information systemhttp://drexel.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp
A brief history of thought: info, knowledge, truth & human cognition
Plato’s philosophy
Starting point for Western thought, science & technology
Truth, knowledge, learning, wisdom Education takes the student out of the
common-sense world through stages and the student must struggle to make sense
A world of ideas, concepts, theory that sheds light on empirical sense perception
Western philosophy (500 bc–2009 ad), then social theory Greek: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle Latinized Aristotelian Christian theology Descartes (cogito ergo sum) Empiricism vs rationalism Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx Behaviorism, cognitivism, post-
cognitivism
Plato distinguished the common-sense world of shadows from the realm of true knowledge, consisting of the general forms or concepts of things
The medieval Christian realms of heaven/earth
Descartes separation of mind and body Empiricism (sense perception &
induction) vs rationalism (logic, predictive science & deduction)
Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx (people constitute the world socially)
Introspective psychology: What do we experience about how we think?
Bias, rationalization, no implicit processes Behaviorism in the 1930’s-1950’s:
Pavlov dogs, Skinner rats & pidgeons learn by conditioned reflexes; drill & practice in education
Cognitivism in the 1960’s-1980’s: The human mind interprets and constructs
understanding of the world Post-cognitivism in the 1990’s-2010’s:
Not a purely rational, individual process of mental representations & models; tacit knowledge, interpersonal interaction, cultural practices
The readingsIntro to domains of groups & information
Social informatics CSCW CSCLCurrent (post-cognitivist) theories of
information artifacts & systems Activity theory (Vygotsky, Engestrom) Ethnomethodology (Garfinkel) Situated & distributed cognition
(Hutchins) Actor-network theory (Latour) Group cognition (Stahl)
Philosophies and scientific paradigms led to:
Multi-disciplinary approaches, like cognitive sciences, learning sciences, information sciences, social informatics, CSCW, CSCL, …
Different theories of learning, education, scientific method, software designs
There were also larger social changes: war, prosperity, ideologies, technologies, etc.
Can you follow the connections, overlaps, differences, application areas, holes?
Questions?
You should have lots of questions now. Many of them will be addressed in the
readings … Then you will have even deeper
questions … (I hope)