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IwC features Learning Environments


Source: UN, 1 December 2003
Submitted by Ann Light

Interacting with Computers (Volume 15, Issue 6) deals with Learning Environments in the second part of the special issue "From Computer Artefact to Instrument for Mediated Activity" The issue is edited by P Rabardel and Y Waern, and features the following articles:

Collaborating with writing tools An instrumental perspective on the problem of
computer-supported collaborative activities,
Teresa Cerratto Pargman
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V0D-49PYTD1-1/1/f71634de3593fd9ff1a4235921fbd302

Appropriating the use of a Moo for collaborative learning,
Teresa Cerratto Pargman and Yvonne Waern
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V0D-49W36WV-1/1/d982bce69446e0dc18f1374087e0fcf4

From artifact to instrument: mathematics teaching mediated by symbolic calculators,
Luc Trouche
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V0D-49R5KV9-1/1/95aaa7c8b606829d79275b410f665fbf

Mediating effects of active and distributed instruments on narrative activities,
Francoise Decortis, Antonio Rizzo and Berthe Saudelli
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V0D-49W20VD-1/1/4aaac986d2fe882a7b7d4da6e4988ed6

Learning with artefacts: integrating technologies into activities,
Victor Kaptelinin
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V0D-49RCMXF-1/1/7d8ffe0c4bd15f6bdd84d98a1ebb0081


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