our team has received news that we will be able to present our paper Exploring constraints on dialogic interaction in immersive environments arising from COVID-19 protocols during this year's international conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), on the 30th of May at 2200 hrs CEST (0400 hrs on the 31st of May, Singapore time).
the paper was authored by my student Chenwei Hu and myself. its abstract reads: This paper describes an independent research study undertaken by a high school student. It explores how dialogic interactions on a given Mathematical topic, decimals, can be constrained in the remote learning platform Zoom. This research utilises Laurillard’s Conversational Framework for a small-scale intervention of two virtual learning sessions in Minecraft Education Edition, focusing on the decimal learning for primary school students. The study found that the overlapping of the immersive learning environment and remote learning platform engenders miscommunications, disorientation, and cognitive dissonance amongst both the teacher and the student, prolonging the discursive and adaptive phases in the dialogic interactions.
we will be sharing the time slot with:
- Francis Kambili-Mzembe and Dr Neil A Gordon of Hull University; and
- Amna Idrees, Mark Morton and Gillian Dabrowski from the University of Waterloo, Canada
iLRN 2022 runs from the 30th and 31st of May as an online event, and from the 1st to the 4th of June in Vienna :-)
