Interacting to learn in the age of social technology

Interaction and collaboration with peers are widely recognized to stimulate cognitive development and to favour the acquisition and organization of new knowledge. Its actual exploitation to support (formal and informal) learning has now more than ever a chance to be successfully realized thanks to the wide development of technology which allows people to communicate as well as to share information, materials, ideas and reflections, in a variety of ways and formats. In this paper, I will take into consideration four different cases of technology potentially supporting learning through interaction.