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Tool or Sign? Negotiated Learning and Socialization Process in the Students' Perceptions of Technology in the Digital Library Classroom

Dalbello, Marija and Covi, Lisa (2003) Tool or Sign? Negotiated Learning and Socialization Process in the Students' Perceptions of Technology in the Digital Library Classroom . Information Technology, Education and Society 4(2):pp. 35-52.

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Abstract

This study explores the learning process in a group, focusing on novice users of technology, by observing how they build frameworks for deep and strategic learning, the role of the communities of practice and the role of existing learning style as a context for learning. A group of LIS students in a digital library classroom was selected for the study. A pre- and post-test questionnaire and a recorded interview (where students described their experiences of achieving technological proficiency in the course) provided the data for the study. We observed that students provided narratives in which they negotiated the role of technology as tool for digital librarianship. The learning process involved interpretation and repositioning of the learning subjects. The loci of control provided the perceived membership in librarianship as a community of practice and their personal experience. The discourses created by the students emerged in relation to regulative contexts that they perceived from their position, notably the expectations of the marketplace and the profession. The personal experience involved the language of the learning contexts (music, art) that students were familiar with.

EPrint Type:Journal Article (Paginated)
Keywords:Digital Libraries - Education; Digital Libraries - Development; Communities of Practice - Qualitative Analysis; Knowledge - Constructivist Approaches; Distributed Cognition; Social Informatics; ICT - Innovation and Practice; Information Technology - Education
Subjects:Social Informatics
ID Code:1866
Deposited On:01 May 2007
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