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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiSessa, Andrea A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Data processing.

Education.

Learning, Psychology of.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 271 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2000]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 commitment? This book is diSessa's informed and passionate affirmative answer to that question.

Rejecting the simplistic notion that the computer is merely a tool for more efficient instruction, diSessa shows how computers can be the basis for a new literacy that will change how people think and learn. He discusses the learning theory that explains why computers can be such powerful catalysts for change in education, explaining, in particular, how intuitive knowledge is the platform on which students build scientific understanding. He also discusses the material and social reasons for the computer's potential and argues for "two-way literacies," where everyone is a creator as well as consumer of dynamic and interactive expressive forms. DiSessa gives many examples from his work using the Boxer computer environment, an integrated software system designed to investigate computational literacies.

Contents:

1 Computational Media and New Literacies

The Very Idea 1

2 How It Might Be 29

3 Snapshots: A Day in the Life 45

4 Foundations of Knowledge and Learning 65

5 Intuition and Activity Elaborated 89

6 Explaining Things, Explainable Things 109

7 Designing Computer Systems for People 131

8 More Snapshots: Kids Are Smart 165

9 Stepping Back, Looking Forward 209.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: DiSessa, Andrea A. Changing minds.

ISBN:

9780262271769

0262271761

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.