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.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. Rejecting the simplistic notion that the computer is merely a tool for                  more efficient instruction, diSessa shows how computers can be the basis for a new                  literacy that will change how people think and learn. He discusses the learning                  theory that explains why computers can be such powerful catalysts for change in                  education, in particular, how intuitive knowledge is the platform on which students                  build scientific understanding. He also discusses the material and social reasons                  for the computer's potential and argues for "two-way literacies," where everyone is                  a creator as well as consumer of dynamic and interactive expressive forms. DiSessa                  gives many examples from his work using the Boxer computer environment, an                  integrated software system designed to investigate computational                  literacies.

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