Giving students opportunities to work collaboratively with complex online information is important for the development of democratic citizenship, but providing and structuring these opportunities poses pedagogical challenges. In this study, we investigate how digital mapping tools developed within Science and Technology Studies (STS) are used by upper secondary science students for the collaborative exploration and ordering of controversial socio-scientific issues (SSIs) found online. Our sociocultural approach to detailed analysis of video data reveals how students synchronously construct shared interactive visualizations and respond collaboratively to mediating features of the network visualization tool for handling multiple perspectives and information encountered online. The analysis shows how the tool-mediated activity provided means for students to work out what is relevant and useful in a corpus of online data. We unpack the details of the complex dynamics of this process of evaluating and categorizing websites, uncovering ways that interaction with emerging knowledge artefacts is co-constitutive of participation in the local setting. In particular, this analysis reveals how the tool-mediating activity slows down the process of judging and categorizing online material in terms of criteria such as institutional status, trustworthiness, and position of a controversy. Furthermore, it reveals that alignments and misalignments between the digital tool used and students’ own logics prompted students to engage in productive collaborative negotiation of how to make sense of a controversy.

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通过数字地图工具呈现有争议的社会科学问题

为学生提供与复杂的在线信息进行协作的机会对于发展民主公民制很重要，但是提供和构建这些机会构成了教学上的挑战。在这项研究中，我们调查了高中科学学生如何利用科学技术研究（STS）中开发的数字制图工具来协作探索和整理在线发现的有争议的社会科学问题（SSI）。我们对视频数据进行详细分析的社会文化方法揭示了学生如何同步构建共享的交互式可视化图像，以及如何对网络可视化工具的中介功能进行协作响应，以处理在线上遇到的多种观点和信息。分析表明，工具介导的活动如何为学生提供手段，以弄清在在线数据语料库中哪些是相关的和有用的。我们对网站评估和分类过程的复杂动态细节进行了分析，揭示了与新兴知识文物的交互是参与本地环境的共同构成方式。特别是，该分析揭示了工具调解活动如何根据诸如机构地位，可信度和争议位置之类的标准来减慢对在线资料的判断和分类过程。此外，它揭示了所使用的数字工具与学生自己的逻辑之间的对齐和错位促使学生进行关于如何解决争议的富有成效的协作式谈判。