Abstract
This study investigates how students perceive and use collaborative technologies while also examining the meanings students assign to both collaboration and technology. A qualitative inductive analysis of students’ assignments in a professional communication course demonstrates that students use technology to collaborate for its Accessibility, A/synchronicity, and Collaborativity. Students perceive and use technology within a functional literacy framework wherein technologies are tools providing pragmatic means to complete a shared-document assignment. These results are important for integrating collaborative assignments and collaborative technologies to promote social learning within the classroom.
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Kalin, Jason
(2012)
"Doing What Comes Naturally? Student Perceptions and Use of Collaborative Technologies,"
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
Vol. 6:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2012.060110
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