1st Edition

Computers As Cognitive Tools Volume II No More Walls

Edited By Susanne P. Lajoie Copyright 2000
464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

Since the publication of the first edition of Computers as Cognitive Tools in 1993, rapid changes have taken place in the uses of technology for educational purposes and in the theories underlying such uses. Changes in perspectives on thinking and learning are guiding the instructional design of computer-based learning environments. Computers as Cognitive Tools, Volume II: No More Walls... Read more
Contents: Preface. S.P. Lajoie, Introduction: Breaking Camp to Find New Summits. Part I: Technologies for Supporting Knowledge Building in Distributed Learning Contexts. F.N. Akhras, J.A. Self, Modeling the Process, Not the Product, of Learning. S.J. Derry, S. Gance, L.L. Gance, M. Schlager, Toward Assessment of Knowledge-Building Practices in Technology-Mediated Work Group Interactions. J. Greer, G. McCalla, J. Cooke, J. Collins, V. Kumar, A. Bishop, J. Vassileva, Integrating Cognitive Tools for Peer Help: The Intelligent Intranet Peer Help-Desk Project. B.Y. White, T.A. Shimoda, J.R. Frederiksen, Facilitating Students' Inquiry Learning and Metacognitive Development Through Modifiable Software Advisers. B. Sugrue, Cognitive Approaches to Web-Based Instruction. Part II: Cognitive Tools That Foster New Forms of Representation. D.H. Jonassen, C.S. Carr, Mindtools: Affording Multiple Knowledge Representations for Learning. J. Erickson, R. Lehrer, What's in a Link? Student Conceptions of the Rhetoric of Association in Hypermedia Composition. B. Harper, J. Hedberg, B. Corderoy, R. Wright, Employing Cognitive Tools Within Interactive Multimedia Applications. S.P. Lajoie, R. Azevedo, Cognitive Tools for Medical Informatics. D.L. Schwartz, G. Biswas, J.D. Bransford, B. Bhuva, T. Balac, S. Brophy, Computer Tools That Link Assessment and Instruction: Investigating What Makes Electricity Hard to Learn. V.J. Shute, L.A. Torreano, R.E. Willis, DNA: Toward an Automated Knowledge Elicitation and Organization Tool. Part III: Epilogue. B. du Boulay, Fallible, Distractible, Forgetful, Willful, and Irrational Learners. E.B. Mandinach, H.F. Cline, It Won't Happen Soon: Practical, Curricular, and Methodological Problems in Implementing Technology-Based Constructivist Approaches in Classrooms. Part IV: Discussion. A. Lesgold, What Are the Tools For? Revolutionary Change Does Not Follow the Usual Norms.

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Susanne P. Lajoie,

"Educational psychologists and developers of new educational computer products should find useful information in this book."
Journal of Mathematical Psychology

"At the start of this review I argued that this lacks the excitement of its predecessor but I would suggest this is because many of the papers here are exploring difficult and complex issues. It is this difficult, and not always fully successful endeavor, that makes this a worthwhile read.
British Journal of Educational Psychology

"This book fills the gap between theory and practice....is refreshingly broad in its embrace of 'education,' extending well beyond traditional classroom lecture settings."
Applied Cognitive Psychology