Software goes to school: teaching for understanding with new technologies/

Other Authors: Perkins, D. N.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
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Table of Contents:
  • Can technology help teach for understanding? / Raymond S. Nickerson
  • Use of history of science to understand and remedy students' misconceptions about heat and temperature / Marianne Wiser
  • On understanding the nature of scientific knowledge / Susan Carey and Carol Smith
  • History of mathematics as a tool for teaching mathematics for understanding / Carlos E. Vasco
  • Inside understanding / David N. Perkins ... [et al.]
  • Shuttling between the particular and the general : reflections on the role of conjecture and hypothesis in the generation of knowledge in science and mathematics / Judah L. Schwartz
  • Conceptually enhanced simulations : a computer tool for science teaching / Joseph Snir, Carol Smith, and Lorraine Grosslight
  • Creating cybernetic and psychological ramps from the concrete to the abstract : examples from multiplicative structures / James J. Kaput
  • Multiple representations : a vehicle for understanding understanding / E. Paul Goldenberg
  • The right size byte : reflections of an educational software designer / Judah L. Schwartz
  • A cultural perspective on school-university collaboration / Martha Stone Wiske
  • Managing the tensions in connecting students' inquiry with learning mathematics in school / Magdalene Lampert
  • Constructing understanding in the science classroom : integrating laboratory experiments, student and computer models, and class discussion in learning scientific concepts / Joseph Snir and Carol Smith
  • Teaching the metacurriculum : a new approach to enhancing subject-matter learning / Steven H. Schwartz and David N. Perkins
  • Integrating computers into classroom teaching : cross-national perspectives / Margaret Vickers and Jane Smalley.