Learning in Interaction

Social Learning by Learning in Interaction on NotaCourtney B. Cazden: The Language of Teaching and LearningBio:Courtney Cazden is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education Emerita at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. An international specialist in child language and education, she is known professionally as a psychologist, educational anthropologist, and applied linguist. In her teaching and research, she integrates these scholarly perspectives with her experience as a former primary school teacher.Main ideas:Talking with Peers:"In pair and small-group activities, students can take on various intellectual roles vis-a-vis each other. Four such roles are spontaneously helping one another, tutoring another student when assigned by the teacher, reciprocally providing 'critique' of each other's work (as in peer writing conferences), and collaborating as presumbaly equal status on assigned tasks." (p. 111)"In his analysis of this 'socially shared cognition,' Schegel emphasizes the importance of the children's body positionings and gestures accompanying their speech that serve to encode and communicate the image or rolling or tumbling." (p. 113)Talk With, At, Through and In Relation to Computers:“The ways computers enter into, and influence, classroom talk can be expressed in four prepositional phrases:- With computers refers to interaction between a student and computer software- At computers refers to interactions between two or more students as they sit at the computer keyboard- Through computers refers to interactions among students at a distance, via telecommunication- In relation to computers refers to classroom interaction not at the keyboard but incorporating work done there”Social Relationships Among Students: (p. 131)- “In more traditional classrooms, social relationships are extracurricular, potential noise in the instructional system and interference with “real” schoolwork. What counts are relationships between the teacher and each student as an individual, both in whole-class lessons and in individual seat-work assignments. In nontraditional classrooms, the situation has fundamentally changed. Now each student becomes a significant part of the official learning environment for all the others, and teachers depend on students’ learning, both in discussions and for the diffusion of individual experience through the class”Example:This is a clip about open body behavior and how people show others if they're comfortable being with someone, such as in a job interview or on a first date, etc. One understands another not by just his words, but also his body language, posture, hand gestures, etc. These signs and signals are distributed, just like knowledge.Cazden, C. (2001). Classroom Discourse: The Language of Teaching and Learning. 2nd edition. 111, 113, 131.Social Learning(Enable JavaScript in your browser, please.)