If I had to summarize this paper in a few words, it would be: viewed as an agent, technology can help students interact by, for example, helping them ask for help. But such a summary would elide the dense layering of theoretical structure placed over this relatively simple formulation, whereby the authors incorporate Actor-Network Theory (ANT) "to provide an underutilized posthumanist lens to understand the creation of collaborative connections in this Computational Action-based implementation... by pushing us to decenter the human, and consider the active roles that human and non-human entities play in learning environments by actively shaping each other." I guess I have to ask what value this theoretical approach adds.
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