Cognitive Tools for Learning

✍ Scribed by David H. Jonassen (auth.), Piet A. M. Kommers, David H. Jonassen, J. Terry Mayes, Alcindo Ferreira (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Series: NATO ASI Series 81
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hypermedia technology needs a creative approach from the outset in the design of software to facilitate human thinking and learning. This book opens a discussion of the potential of hypermedia and related approaches to provide open exploratory learning environments. The papers in the book are based on contributions to a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in July1990 and are grouped into six sections: - Semantic networking as cognitive tools, - Expert systems as cognitive tools, - Hypertext as cognitive tools, - Collaborative communication tools, - Microworlds: context-dependent cognitive tools, - Implementing cognitive tools. The book will be valuable for those who design, implement and evaluate learning programs and who seek to escape from rigid tactics like programmed instruction and behavioristic approaches. The book presents principles for exploratory systems that go beyond existing metaphors of instruction and provokes the reader to think in a new way about the cognitive level of human-computer interaction.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
What are Cognitive Tools?....Pages 1-6
Cognitive Tools: A Suitable Case for Learning....Pages 7-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-21
Constructing Knowledge with Learning Tool....Pages 23-32
TextVision and the Visualisation of Knowledge: School-based Evaluation of its Acceptance at two Levels of Schooling....Pages 33-62
SemNet: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Construction....Pages 63-75
Cognitive Tools: The Experience of CASP, NoteCards, SemNet....Pages 77-83
Flexibility of Expressiveness: A Critical Factor in the Design of Concept Mapping Tools for Learning....Pages 85-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-104
Building Knowledge Bases: An Environment for Making Cognitive Connections....Pages 105-123
Levels of Processing in Building Expert Systems....Pages 125-137
Computers and Exploratory Learning in the Real World....Pages 139-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-148
Tailoring Hypertext for the Learner....Pages 149-160
Heuristics for Cognitive Tools....Pages 161-168
Gloves for the Mind....Pages 169-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Using Timbuktu™ and Guide™ for Computer Supported Group Learning....Pages 185-192
Gossip as a Collaborative Communication Tool....Pages 193-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-198
Learning Elementary Mathematics: A Discussion of Microworlds....Pages 199-214
How to Put Language in a Child’s Mind: The Development of “Scriptor” as a Computer Tool for Writing....Pages 215-226
Structure of Learning Environments and Individual Differences as Predictors of Learning....Pages 227-239
Learning Environments for Cognitive Apprenticeship: From Experience to Expertise....Pages 241-248
Front Matter....Pages 249-250
Consequences of Moving from a Traditional Cybernetic Approach to a Open Exploratory Learning Environment....Pages 251-262
Back Matter....Pages 263-280

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)