Anyway, I'm a primary school teacher, specialized int he teaching of
mathematics and science. For the past 3,5 years I've been doing my
phd at the Universtity of Twente, The Netherlands. In fact, I only
finished writing up my dissertation a couple of weeks ago, and with a
bit of luck, I will defend it in early January. My research focused
on the social (teacher) and material (computer spreadsheet)
distribution of cognition during problem solving.
My research interests: use of computers for learning and
problem solving in science and math; social influences on the
development of self-regulation; mediation and the role of
both psychological tools and artifacts in cognition and problem
solving; quantiative discourse analysis, mostly sequential
analysis; qualitative discourse analysis, particularly genre
analysis; interface affordances and task understanding/performance.
If I remember correctly, this whole thread was initiated because the
the participants lost track of who is out there. I have tried to
check this in the past, but all I came up with was a list of
less than 50 people (while there are reasons to believe that there
are many more):
http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Descriptions/MCA_profile_index.html
Judging from the entry dates, these people must have been the very
first xcma-ers! :-)
Wouldn't it be a good idea to set up a site with all current xcma
subsribers? (provided that such a site/page does not actually exist).
One final thing: much like Nate, I've recently spent some time
setting up a personal page with information, links to other sites
and people, quotes, and bibliography related to: sociocultural
psychology, activity theory, and discourse analysis. The url is:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3011/
(click on cognition on the menu and please be patient with the
popup ads).
I would welcome any suggestions for additions, especially
regarding (a) links to other sites with sociocultural
psychology/activity theory/discouse analysis resources, and (b)
personal/professional homepages of people in these fields.
Regards,
Ilias
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Ilias Karasavvidis
Department of Curriculum Technology
Faculty of Educational Science and Technology
University of Twente, P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Voice: +31534894473
Fax: +31534892895
Email: Karasavvidis who-is-at edte.utwente.nl
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3011/
http://130.89.40.26/ilias
"The ancient Greeks did not know the main thing
about themselves, that they were _ancient_ Greeks"
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
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