On collaborative learning and online deliberation...
I wrote this in a conversation this morning:
My professional background happens to be e-learning, so I’m very much onto the link between computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) and online deliberation. I believe we need to avert the idea that we need to “educate” the participants [of a Citizens Assembly]. I’d rather take the approach that people come to the forum already having valuable lived experience, present to them perhaps just a bit more about the various options (they should have some power to determine that agenda) and especially how they are framed, then work hardest at providing scaffolds in the online environment that help them in the area of critical thinking to judge those various positions in the context of overall national needs. The design effort for us is in those scaffolds.
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