Changing minds : computers, learning, and literacy / Andrea A. diSessa.

Andrea diSessa's career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has been driven by one important question: can education -- in particular, science education -- be transformed by the computer so that children can learn more, learn more easily at an earlier age, and learn with pleasure and commit...

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Main Author: DiSessa, Andrea A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
©2000
Series:Bradford book.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Computational media and new literacies
  • the very idea
  • 2. How it might be
  • 3. Snapshots : a day in the life
  • 4. Foundations of knowledge and learning
  • 5. Intuition and activity elaborated
  • 6. Explaining things, explainable things
  • 7. Designing computer systems for people
  • 8. More snapshots : kids are smart
  • 9. Stepping back, looking forward.