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S collected answers from the multiple students who raised their hands, here Matthew, Adam, Joseph, Jonathan, and Colby. That multiple students were raising their hands or calling out as Student 2 did suggests that they were eager to display their thinking, even when doing so was repetitive.
For example, in line 8, Student 2 repeated Matthew's warrant that a bird that flies is alive. Moreover, students generally spoke directly to Mr. S, rather than to one another, which suggests they were mainly hoping to display their thinking to him. Throughout the discussion, Mr.
S's feedback focused on recognizing and reiterating the students' ideas lines 5, 9, In some cases he clarified the students' contribution see line This move seemed to signal his understanding. In fact, Mr. The lack of a focus on accuracy was largely by design: His explicit purpose was to elicit students' ideas, not to drive them towards the canonical understanding. Still, the students' ideas were generally moving in that direction, so for the most part there was little tension between the objectives of eliciting student reasoning and making progress toward target concepts.
Occasionally Mr.
S emphasized the ideas that aligned more closely with the curricular objectives. S highlighted it: All right, lets talk about something he just said. He just said that you can be dead and still moving and his key thing was that it was moving by its own will or on its own accord, by itself line This validation of particular ideas brings Mr. For the most part, however, Mr. S focused on eliciting and clarifying student ideas, and he provided little validation. This introduces a sense of competition for opportunities to display understanding.
Within this competition, Mr. The chaining and focus on validation also made it possible for students to construct and display their own ideas, suggesting that this was a goal for Mr.
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Student participation in the discussion, such as Student 2 explaining that he had written an idea on his worksheet, suggests that they were also framing their role as knowledge construction and display. Within that student construction of ideas, Mr. S emphasized validation of particular ideas, suggesting he had an additional goal that students learn the canon.
S and the students understood that it was his role to choose the discussion topic by asking the questions and managing student contributions, including giving them permission to speak. Although these patterns appeared throughout the discussion, not all of the participants' actions align with them. This was divergent from the class's framing of the discussion in several ways: It was a student speaking to a student, without being recognized by the teacher; it was a challenge to a claim; and it requested that the student justify his thinking. Perhaps this unidentified student was questioning Jonathan's authority or perhaps he was looking for evidence.
In either case, we see a hint of another way the class might have framed a conversation: individuals could have challenged one another and supported their claims. However, the data suggest both individual and distributed mechanisms of framing and stability.