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>> Notice of Extended Deadline – April 30th <<
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At the 2007 Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning,
July 16-21, Rutgers University
Technology Supporting Cognitive Skills for Ethics in Collaboration
and Communication
Note: Please register or express interest before April 30th—workshops
with insufficient registration will be cancelled.
Register by http://isls.org/cscl2007/preconference_events.htm
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More info at: http://home.comcast.net/~perspegrity5/CSCL2007
The workshop will explore how technology can support ethical and
moral skills and sensibilities in the context of collaborative work,
knowledge building, decision making, and conflict resolution. The
purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners in diverse areas that overlap on this theme to pool
knowledge and brainstorm about research directions.
An important step in knowledge building or collaborative work is
establishing mutual understanding, recognition, and regard among
participants. Doing so in a deep way is a considerable challenge in
many situations, and involves a set of skills and habits that have
ethical import. These skills include: the metacognitive, self-
reflective, and epistemological skills of examining one's own biases,
limitations, emotional state, goals, etc.; cognitive empathy (or
"mutual perspective taking"); "dialectical intelligence" (in
considering uncertain or conflicting ideas); and the social and meta-
dialogical skills of systematically reflecting on the quality of a
communicative or collaborative interaction and searching for ways to
improve it.
There are exciting potentials in online collaborative tools designed
to support these and related communication and collaboration skills
in the context of day-to-day work. Prompts, templates, and other
scaffolding devices can be embedded into discussion forums, email,
decision support and workflow software, and other online tools. Many
threads of research are applicable to the overall theme of
"collaborative technologies supporting cognitive skills for ethics,"
but there have been almost no venues for bringing these
interdisciplinary threads together.
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