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Changing minds : computers, learning, and literacy / Andrea A. diSessa.
"While written at a level that anyone with a good acquaintance with high school science can understand, the book reflects the depth and breadth of the issues surrounding technology in education. 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, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Record details
- ISBN: 0262541327 (paper)
- ISBN: 0262041804 (cloth)
- Physical Description: xix, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
- Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2001.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "A Bradford book."
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-265) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| The Pas Campus Library | LB 1028.43 .D57 2001 (Text) | 58500000728246 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Thompson Campus Library | LB 1028.43 .D57 2001 (Text) | 58500000728253 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| VIU Library - Nanaimo Campus | LB 1028.43 D57 2000 (Text) | M010552162 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - |