Reading changing minds is rather like spending an intensive weekend with a new friend. The book offers a nuanced vision for computational literacy buttressed by stunning examples from diverse fields including education, physics, engineering, and the history of science. Bret victor published a photo of his books, taken by mayli khoe. Disessa, 2000 marge benhamhutchins northeastern university.
Apr 18, 2000 an impassioned guide to how computers can fundamentally change how we learn and think. Computers, learning and literacy, educational researcher andrea disessa extolls the learning potential of toolrich cultures. While written at a level that anyone with a good acquaintance with high school science can understand, the book reflects the depth and breadth of the issues surrounding technology in education. Conceptually, material intelligence is influenced by constructionism and distributed cognition theory. Computers, learning and literacy are the culmination of twentyfive years of work investigating the role of the computer in science education. The computer as a medium for exploring mathematics. One of the original designers of the childrens programming language logo, disessa has spent most of his professional life thinking about how kids use and change technology and, ultimately, how. Andrea disessas career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has been driven by one important question.
One of the original designers of the childrens programming language logo, disessa has spent most of. An impassioned guide to how computers can fundamentally change how we learn and think. His research centers on the role of intuitive knowledge in learning science, and the development of computational literacies. Andrea disessa is an education researcher who was one of the developers of the logo programming language 1 and coauthored the book turtle geometry about logo. Pdf on jun 1, 2002, elizabeth cavicchi and others published changing minds. Andrea a disessa andrea disessas career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has been driven by one important question.
He received his ab in physics from princeton university and his phd, also in physics, from the massachusetts institute of technology. As the projects web site explains, boxer is the first example of a computational medium for real peopleboxer is based on a literacy model. Disessa estimates that computers can make us smarter, if not wiser. These are the questions motivating andy disessas thoughts in changing minds. Bret victor bookshelf transcribed max cherepitsa medium. Lifelong kindergarten cultivating creativity through. He has also authored highly cited research papers on the epistemology of physics, 2 educational experimentation, 3 and constructivist analysis of knowledge, 4 and the book changing minds. His research centers around conceptual and experiential knowledge in physics, and principles for designing flexible and comprehensible computer systems. The term computational essay was introduced by andrea disessa in his book changing minds disessa, 2000 as a type of essay that uses text, along with small programs, interactive diagrams, and computational tools to express an idea. Andrea disessa as velux visiting professor for three.
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Andrea disessa born june 3, 1947 is an education researcher and author of the book turtle geometry about logo. Computers, learning and literacy bradford book a bradford book ebook. Dont let the technological connotations of tool overwhelm your imagination. Rejecting the notion that the computer is merely a tool for more efficient instruction, this book shows how computers can be the basis for a new literacy that will change how people think and learn. He uses the terms computational literacy, material literacy, and material intelligence interchangeably. Computers, learning and literacy mit press, 2000 the ideas expressed in changing minds. He has been active as an editor, executive editor, and on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including currently serving as editorinchief of cognition and. Computers, learning, and literacy free boook online.