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Title: Net.Create: Network Analysis in Collaborative Co-Construction of Historical Context in a Large Undergraduate Classroom
History educators in large-lecture humanities undergraduate classrooms struggle to support reading comprehension, defined as the ability to simultaneously read a complex text critically, understand the text’s details and context, and vet the text’s claims. Critical reading of historical texts in particular helps bridge the gap between seeing history as memorization-oriented and seeing it as an inquiry-oriented discipline that reconstructs narrative and context. Net.Create is an open-source, network-analysis software tool paired with activities that support intuitive creation and revision of a network data set and accompanying visualization, and through these representational practices, reading comprehension in humanities classrooms. Findings show that as students draw on details in a historical text to collaboratively construct a larger network, they begin to emphasize context reconstruction over memorization.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1848655
NSF-PAR ID:
10300994
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Gresalfi, M. and
Date Published:
Journal Name:
The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020
Volume:
2
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1055-1062
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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