Changing face-to-face communication: collaborative tools to support small-group discussions in the classroom

ion: Underlying Mechanisms The recurrent nature of the problem implies that it goes beyond a particular situation, in other words, the problem can be described in terms that are more general and still relates to a specific observation. The activity of “abstraction” aims to describe the problems in general terms by describing the mechanisms that cause these problems. The functions-mechanisms relation can be characterized as a one-to-many relation (Bunge, 2004). A function of a social system can be realized through different mechanisms. For example, the sharing of knowledge during a group discussion is

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