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(2015): Learning to overcome cultural conflict through engaging with intelligent agents in synthetic cultures (PSYNDEXshort). In: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 25, S. 291-317
Abstract: Providing opportunities for children to engage with intercultural learning has frequently focused on exposure to the ritual, celebrations and festivals of cultures, with the view that such experiences will result in greater acceptance of cultural differences. Intercultural conflict is often avoided, bringing as it does particular pedagogical, ethical and political dilemmas of which cultures we place in conflict in the multicultural classroom. In this paper we discuss an alternative approach, providing children with an interactive learning experience with synthetic cultures and characters. The agent architecture developed to enable intelligent agents to exhibit culturally appropriate affect and behaviours is outlined. MIXER, an experiential learning application developed for 9-11 year old children on intercultural conflict is described, highlighting the learning goals and approaches. A school-based evaluation of MIXER with 144 UK children is presented. Children demonstrated high levels of comprehension, engagement and enjoyment of MIXER, with MIXER contributing to near and far transfer, supporting children's cognitive, emotional and behavioural learning and stimulating discussion and debate about how to resolve conflict.
Keywords: Anpassung und Einstellungen, Behavioural cultural tools, Bildungsprogramme und Lehrmethoden, Classroom Dynamics & Student Adjustment & Attitudes, Classrooms, Computer software, conflict, Conflict Resolution, Cross Cultural Differences, Culture & Ethnology, Curricula, Curriculum & Programs & Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students, Erfahrungslernen, Experiential Learning, Grundschüler, High School Students, intelligent agents, Intelligent Systems, Intelligente Agenten, Intelligente Systeme, Interaktion, Interkulturelle Unterschiede, Klassenräume, Konflikt, Konfliktlösung, Kultur und Ethnologie, Kulturforschung/ kulturelle Unterschiede, Lerntheorien, Mensch-Technik-Relation, Multicultural Education, Multikulturelle Erziehung, Pädagogische Psychologie, Schüler der Sekundarstufe, Sociocultural Factors, Software, Soziokulturelle Faktoren, verhaltensbezogene Kulturtechniken 2008
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(2008): Evaluating computer-supported social learning. An integrative study of the development of soft skills in a university-based mediation training programme.
Abstract: Evaluated the effect of computer-supported social learning (CSSL) on sociocommunicative competence. Computer technology provides learners with video-based scenes and interactive tasks designed to provide additional exposure to complex and critical interpersonal situations. This study focused on the impact of the introduction and use of CSSL on a training program known as PROCON, which is offered to graduate psychology students with basic knowledge and experience in group facilitation techniques, basic 1-to-1 counseling, and communication skills. 272 students participated in 1 or more PROCON modules between 2002 and 2006. The analysis focused on 195 participants who completed the curriculum within one year and cohort. While computer software cannot replace the direct, situated interaction offered in the classroom setting, it was hypothesized that a blend of traditional teaching methods and CSSL has a positive effect on a learner's sociocommunicative competence in addition to increasing situational judgment skills, increasing conceptual and taxonomic knowledge levels, increasing interest in mediation and conflict resolution, and increasing self-rated confidence levels. Participants were subjected to a pretest prior to being accepted into the PROCON program. Once accepted into the program, standard classroom presentation was supplemented by CSSL and assessed by online surveys, posttests, and log files. Sociocommunicative competence was assessed using situational judgment tests (SJT). Findings indicated positive results on SJT when CSSL was used in conjunction with traditional teaching methods rather than as a substitution for them. No consistent association was found between computer-facilitated learning and posttest levels of conceptual knowledge or an increase in interest in mediation or conflict resolution. Self-efficacy levels were found to be either equal to or greater than outcome results without the addition of CSSL. Overall, positive results were found to exist with the complementary use of computer technology in the development of sociocommunicative skills.
Keywords: Bildungsprogramme und Lehrmethoden, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computerunterstützte Unterweisung, Conflict Resolution, Curricula, Curriculum & Programs & Teaching Methods, effect of computer-supported social learning (CSSL) on sociocommunicative competence, Konfliktlösung, Lehrmethoden, Lerntheorien, Mediation, Mensch-Technik-Relation, social learning, Social Skills Training, Soziales Kompetenztraining, Soziales Lernen, Teaching Methods, traditional group-facilitation training vs training with added CSSL elements, training in social competences, Training sozialer Fertigkeiten
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