General Remark for all assignments - always remember the following statement by Blaise Pascal: "I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it shorter."
Assignment 2
Due: Mon, January 28, 2002; 8:00am on the class website
Read the article
Fischer, G. (1998) "Making Learning a Part of Life-Beyond the 'Gift-Wrapping' Approach of Technology." Notes from 6/96 NSF Symposium on Learning and Intelligent Systems available at: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/presentations/gf-wlf/
Briefly discuss the following issues:
- what did you find
- interesting about the article?
- not interesting about the article?
- what do you consider the main message of the article?
- click on one of the words in blue and see what happens?
- is this feature useful?
- in which other situations have you encountered this feature?
- global learning theories and approaches
- do you know any of the people mentioned in the diagrams:
- Skinner
- Piaget
- Papert
- Illich
- Vygotsky
- Dewey
- <ignore Taylor>
- select one of the six
- in case you know something - and write a paragraph what she/he has contributed to a deeper understanding of learning?
- in case you do not know something, find out something about her/him - and write a paragraph what she/he has contributed to a deeper understanding of learning?