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What is Cognitive Tools (or Mind tools)

Chapter 10
Handbook of Research on Collaborative Learning Using Concept Mapping
Computer-based tools and learning environments that have been adapted or developed to function as intellectual partners with the learner in order to engage and facilitate critical thinking and higher-order learning.
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Intersubjective Meaning-Making in Dyads Using Object-Typed Concept Mapping
Josianne Basque (LICEF Research Center, Tèle-Universitè, Canada) and Béatrice Pudelko (LICEF Research Center, Tèle-Universitè, Canada)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-992-2.ch010
Abstract
In this chapter, we investigate, with an intersubjective epistemology approach, how a concept mapping software tool that integrates a typology of knowledge objects (nodes) and a typology of links mediates the process of meaning-making and of meaning-negotiation of a dyad of adult learners engaged in a collaborative concept mapping activity, more specifically in the context of a text comprehension task. This case study shows that the tool and its object-typed concept mapping language induce certain types of epistemic actions as well as the formation of diverse representational rules by participants, which were jointly and progressively elaborated by them in an intensive effort to share meaning.
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