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That part of the reading about how to assess collective activity in larger group was interesting for me. It is a challenge that we determine if there is general understanding in a large group or not. I think there is no problem to determine a user understanding individualy but in a large group I would be hard. In this reading of – Enabling Innovations in Education and Systematicizing Their Impact, it talks about Toulmin’s basic model which represents four parts: the data, the claim, the warrant, and the backing. The reading did not give much information about the model. However, I did some google search to know about the model in more details. I found more details about the model which makes more sense supported with examples. http://owlet.letu.edu/contenthtml/research/toulmin.html
By: Emad on February 2, 2008
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