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Hello everyone, I have been following XMCA for awhile and have enjoyed the conversation as a lurker. Many of you have assisted me on the LRA/NRC listserv as I tried to establish an online Vygotsky study group (that was before I knew about XMCA and all of the wonderful resources within). I am wondering if anyone might be able to point me in the direction of a few studies. I am looking for critiques of comprehension research that cast strategy instruction as cognitive processes rather than a set of social tool that begins externally and then through social interactions becomes abstract and internal. My own thinking, while our lab works from a more cognitive perspective, is currently heading in this direction. I have come closer to this precipice for a variety of reasons. - In our efforts to teach meaning making while students read online I am finding that most of our efforts need to be placed in creating the contexts that maximize strategy exchange. - Any observable differences seem to be around procedural tool use (cut and paste, how to add bullets in a wiki). I rarely see students engage in activities that lead to exchanging strategies for making meaning with multiple texts. - In my teaching of future teachers, students often cite Vygotsky and ZoPeD as the cornerstone of their philosophy without paying any credence to the larger cultural mediating factors. I don't disregard strategy instruction. The legacy of Vygotsky, even in a limited incarnation, has helped to reshape literacy instruction. Thus I am trying to find research that looks at strategy instruction from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Thanks, Greg -- J. Gregory McVerry Neag Fellow University of Connecticut New Literacies Research Lab http://newliteracies.uconn.edu twitter: jgmac1106 " [Champions] have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." -Ali _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca