Education & learning publications
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Connecting The Connectivity And The Component Revolutions To Deep Curriculum Reform
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Building A Foundation For Information Literacy: Creating An Annotated WWW-Index By Children For Children
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Programming Games For Learning About Magnetism And Electricity
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Facilitating Collaborative Problem Solving With Distant Mentor
This work addresses the problem of helping learners develop concepts and skills needed to be productive in the fast-changing technical workplace. It marries the kind of informal, on-demand learning preferred…
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Protocol Modeling, Bifurcation/Bootstrapping, And Convince Me: Computer-Based Methods For Studying Beliefs And Their Revision
This paper traces a progression of four computer-based methods for studying and fostering both the structure and the on-line development of knowledge. Each empirical technique employs ECHO, a connectionist model…
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Learning In Interactive Environments: Prior Knowledge And New Experience
Educators often focus on the ideas that they want their audience to have. But research has shown that a learner’s prior knowledge often confounds an educator’s best efforts to deliver…
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Children’s Interest In and Understanding Of Science And Technology: A Study Of The Effects Of CRO
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Year 2000: Using Technology To Build Communities Of Understanding
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No Girls Allowed
Discusses girls' use of computers and examines why they are often discouraged and lose interest.
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On Using Technology For Understanding Science
This essay calls for the science education community to consider seriously the educational implications of technology-derived fundamental changes in scientific methodologies.
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Supporting Pascal Programming With An On-Line Template Library And Case Studies
In this project, we devised an on-line network of Pascal programming templates called a template library, and tested it with subjects (classified as novice, intermediate, and expert Pascal programmers) both…
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The Design and Assessment of A Hypermedia Course on Semiconductor Manufacturing
Learning effects were assessed. Results suggest that subjects who browsed via hypermedia links tended to more often bridge topic areas rather than explore them in depth, but there were little…