Teachers of networked collaborative classrooms, with multiple groups interacting in parallel, need assistance for better understanding and regulating the learning process. They may use tools that collect and process students’ activity data, and generate views of students’ activities. Classroom management tools may be used to observe and control students’ screens, but often fail to exploit inter...

How people learn chunks or associations between adjacent items in sequences was modelled. Two previously successful models of how people learn artificial grammars were contrasted: the CCN, a network version of the competitive chunker of Servan-Schreiber and Anderson [J. Exp. Psychol.: Learn. Mem. Cogn. 16 (1990) 592], which produces local and compositionally-structured chunk representations acq...

There is extensive transcription throughout the eukaryotic genome resulting in both antisense transcripts from coding regions and cryptic unstable transcripts (CUTs) from intergenic regions. In this issue, Camblong et al. (2007) demonstrate in the budding yeast that antisense transcripts, if stabilized by exosome impairment, are able to mediate gene silencing via the recruitment of histone deac...

The study of verbal diathesis alternations over the past two decades has produced a wealth of empirical generalizations as well as many theoretical insights (see, among others, Bresnan & Kanerva 1989, Levin & Rappaport 1991, 1995, Hale & Keyser 2002, Reinhart 2002, Borer 2005). In comparison, surprisingly little work has been done during that period on diathesis alternations in adjectives. This...

momentarily appear in these pages. The art of the author was surely tempered by design. Nor do the essays merely entertain. Of medicine and medical schools, of libraries and of books and their makers, many things are said; some strangely prophetic, some with a sly dig at the all-too-complacent, but many more based on what the author regarded as worthier than a shibboleth, on common sense. The s...

Through the lens of emergent perspective (Cobb & Yackel, 1996), this study examined nature and extent variation in individuals’ ways reasoning from that were accepted by a classroom community. This was done interviewing seven undergraduate students after they had participated discussions. In contrast to other studies have relationship, qualitatively different reasoning. suggests even if act...

A century and a half ago, a young Ojibwa woman sent the letter in Figure 1 to someone she was interested in (Mallery, 1972). The letter portrays a schematic map with a message superimposed. The map is to her home, marked by her totem, and is addressed to the man she wishes to visit her, marked by his totem. The message is her arm beckoning him to her home. Graphics such as these appear disperse...

The five invited papers in this collection both use and test the Ways of Knowing approach for a range of topics which spans from chemistry around 1800 to molecular biology now, and from classical bacteriology to classifications used in cancer hospitals. I have added two sections. At the end of the volume, I reflect on the papers, and then extend the discussion to further aspects of the WoK meth...