Handbook of Design in Educational Technology

43 Assessing Socio-Emotional Learning around Educational Technologies

Carolyn Penstein Rosé

1. Introduction

Past research has shown relationships between student dispositions and motivational states and productive interaction with learning technologies. Much of this work has treated learning as an individual activity, without explicit consideration of how the social context influences student motivational states or how the social context reflects the ways in which these states wax and wane over time. An important limitation of this paradigm is that it does not consider the ways in which the presence of the technology within the social context affects social interactions within that context, despite the fact that such effects are undoubtedly present ...