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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Educationally Valuable Talk: A New Concept for Determining the Quality of Online Conversations - Sedef Uzuner, JOLT
This paper is about conversations and quality of talk in online discussions. Derived from the tenets of constructivist learning as well as the notion of “exploratory talk”, it characterizes two distinct types of talk: educationally valuable talk (EVT) and educationally less valuable talk (ELVT). The potential of each talk type for collaborative knowledge building is discussed and teaching implications are considered.
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