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Responding to STEM Students’ Gestured Candidate Responses

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Abstract

We demonstrate a way in which teachers can be responsive to students’ multimodal contributions in whole-class STEM discussions. To answer teachers’ questions, students sometimes use representational gestures to provide unspoken, “off-the-record,” tentative responses. By attending to these gestured candidate responses, teachers can preview students’ potential contributions to the discussion and ratify the contribution. Ratified contributions can be taken up by the teacher and shared with the class. This study contributes to a better understanding of the nuanced roles gesture plays in STEM classroom discourse.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISLS Annual Meeting 2021 Reflecting the Past and Embracing the Future - 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021
EditorsErica de Vries, Yotam Hod, June Ahn
PublisherInternational Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Pages973-974
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781737330615
StatePublished - 2021
Event15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Jun 8 2021Jun 11 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
ISSN (Print)1814-9316

Conference

Conference15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period06/8/2106/11/21

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