Education has traditionally studied the world by bringing it into the classroom. This can result in situated learning that appears to students to have no relevance outside the classroom. Students acquire inert, decontextualized knowledge that they cannot apply to real problems. The obvious solution to this shortcoming is to reverse the situation and bring the classroom to the phenomena: to learn in a rich, real-world context. The problem with the real world is that it is complex and filled with interactions that are hard to sort out. The editors and authors believe that the right tools might help students with this sorting process and result in learning in rich contexts. This book is an account of a series of experiments designed to explore the validity of this insight.
| ISBN: | 9780306466434 |
| Publication date: | 30th November 2001 |
| Author: | Robert Tinker, Joseph S Krajcik |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 195 pages |
| Series: | Innovations in Science Education and Technology |
| Genres: |
Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL) Teaching of a specific subject Science: general issues |