Product Description: Interested in more than just the learning of physics, diSessa offers a broad theory of cognitive change and learning -- a theory of the nature of cognitive representations and the organizations of knowledge. It is also a theory of the roles of direct experience in domains of formal knowledge and of the immediate situation in reasoning and thinking...read more

Product Description: Computers are playing a fundamental role in enhancing exploratory learning techniques in education. This volume in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology covers the state of the art in the design and use of computer systems for exploratory learning...read more

Tackling the difficult question of whether students learn science better with computers at their disposal, the author discovers value in the technology far exceeding its role as a classroom 'tool.' (view table of contents)

Product Description: An impassioned guide to how computers can fundamentally change how we learn and think.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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Decades of research in the cognitive and learning sciences have led to a growing recognition of the incredibly multi-faceted nature of human knowing and learning. Up to now, this multifaceted nature has been visible mostly in distinct and often competing communities of researchers...read more