Sixth graders and shared data: designing a LAN environment to support collaborative work

  • Authors:
  • Denis Newman

  • Affiliations:
  • BBN Laboratories Inc.

  • Venue:
  • CSCW '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

A local area network system was developed to support collaborative science activities in sixth grade classrooms. Analyses of the students' understandings of the system showed they used the social organization of the classroom activities as a frame of reference. Their misconceptions are accounted for by the ways that the system did not properly reflect the activities in which the students were engaged.