“Do you see what we see?” – Perspective-taking across realities

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) is slowly emerging as a collaborative technology in CSCL. This form of technology mediation challenges the typical distribution of available resources known from face-to-face interactions. Now, one or more participants may be immersed in IVR, while others are ‘left behind’ in the physical space experiencing the virtual world on a flat screen. The collaborative activities are thus taking place across realities and it is important to learn how the participants navigate in this complex setting. With perspective-taking as our theoretical lens, we apply Interaction Analysis methods to the participants’ interactional moves in instructing and participating across realities through an excerpt in which participants collaboratively imagine disembodied instruction Based on the analysis we discuss some of the challenges that emerge for a teacher instructing across different realities, and we will discuss key implications for new forms of pedagogical practices in CSCL.