Readings are subject to change, check back often.
| Week | Date | Topic | Readings | |
| August | 1 | Tuesday, 8/23 | Introduction | |
| 1 | Thursday, 8/25 | Learning: from speculation to science | How People Learn - Chapter 1 | |
| 2 | Tuesday, 8/30 | Learner-Centered Design | Soloway, E., Guzdial, M., & Hay, K. E. (1994). Learner-Centered Design:
The Challenge for HCI in the 21st Century. Interactions, 1(2), 36-48. (electronic
reserve) ASSIGNMENT DUE: essay on educational experience |
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| September | 2 | Thursday, 9/1 | How Experts Differ from Novices | How People Learn - Chapter 2 |
| 3 | Tuesday, 9/6 | Cognitive Apprenticeship | Collins, A., Brown, J. S., & Newman, S. E. (1989). Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the craft of reading, writing, and mathematics. In L. B. Resnick (Ed.), Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essays in Honor of Robert Glaser (pp. 453-494). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates (electronic reserve) | |
| 3 | Thursday, 9/8 | Transfer & Factors that Affect Learning | How People Learn - Chapter 3 Surf: Biologica |
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| 4 | Tuesday, 9/13 | Cancelled Class | ||
| 4 | Thursday, 9/15 | Cognitive Tutors | Anderson, J. R., Corbett, A. T., Koedinger, K. R., & Pelletier, R.
(1995). Cognitive Tutors: Lessons Learned. Journal of the Learning
Sciences, 4(2), 167-208. (electronic
reserve) Try out: Cognitive Tutor (linked from your home directory) |
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| 5 | Tuesday, 9/20 | Constructionism | Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful
Ideas. New York, NY: Basic Books. Preface and Intro (emailed to list) and Chapter 1 (electronic reserve) Papert, S. (1991). Situating Constructionism. In I. Harel & S. Papert (Eds.), Constructionism (pp. 1-11). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Company. (electronic reserve) |
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| 5 | Thursday, 9/22 | Designing Construction Kits | Resnick, M., Bruckman, A., & Martin, F. (1996). Pianos not Stereos: Creating Computational Construction Kits. Interactions, 3(5), 41-50. | |
| 6 | Tuesday, 9/27 | Problem and Project Based Learning | Barron, B. J. S., Schwartz, D. L., Vye, N. J., Moore, A., Petrosino, A., Zech, L., Bransford, J. D., & CTGV. (1998). Doing with Understanding: Lessons from Research on Problem- and Project-based Learning. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 7(3&4), 271-310. (electronic reserve) | |
| 6 | Thursday, 9/29 | StarLogo | Resnick, M. (1996). Beyond
the Centralized Mindset. Journal of the Learning Sciences,
vol. 5, no. 1, p. 1-22. Try it out: http://education.mit.edu/starlogo/ ASSIGNMENT DUE: StarLogo analysis papers |
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| October | 7 | Tuesday, 10/4 | Unlocking the Clubhouse: Early experiences through high school | Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2 |
| 7 | Thursday, 10/6 | Unlocking the Clubhouse: College years | Chapters 3-8, Epilogue and Appendix | |
| 8 | Tuesday, 10/11 | ISDP (Instructional Software Design Project) and How Children Learn | Harel, I., & Papert, S. (1990). Software Design as a Learning Environment. Interactive
Learning Environments, 1(1), 1-32. (electronic
reserve) and How People Learn - Chapter 4 |
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| 8 | Thursday, 10/13 | Midterm | ||
| 9 | Tuesday, 10/18 | Fall Break - No Class | ||
| 9 | Thursday, 10/20 | Self Theories | Course Pack: Dweck, Carol S. (2000) Self-theories: Their Role in
Motivation, Personality, and Development. Philadelphia: Psychology
Press. pp. 1-28. For this class: Put your favorite quote from Dweck on the CoWeb. |
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| 10 | Tuesday, 10/25 | CoWeb | Guzdial, M., Ludovice, P., Realff, M., Morley, T., and Carroll, K. (2002). When Collaboration Doesn't Work. Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. (p. 125-130). | |
| 10 | Thursday, 10/27 | Designing Novice Programming Languages | diSessa, A. A., & Abelson, H. (1986). Boxer: A Reconstructible Computational
Medium. Communications of the ACM, 29(9), 859-868. (electronic
reserve) If you've got a Mac, download Boxer and try it out at: Boxer site at Berkeley |
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| November | 11 | Tuesday, 11/1 | Authenticity | Shaffer, D.W., and Resnick, M. (1999). "Thick" Authenticity:
New Media and Authentic Learning. Journal of Interactive Learning Research,
vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 195-215. ASSIGNMENT DUE: Software design #1 |
| 11 | Thursday, 11/3 | Educational Uses of the Internet | Bruckman, A. (1999). The Day After Net Day: Approaches to Educational Use of the Internet. Convergence, 5(1), 24-46. | |
| 12 | Tuesday, 11/8 | Simulation and Modeling | Starr, (1994). Seductions of Sim: Policy as a Simulation Game. The American Prospect, 5(17), 19 - 29. | |
| 12 | Thursday, 11/10 | Design Experiments | Brown, A. L. (1992). Design Experiments: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Creating Complex Interventions in Classroom Settings. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2(2), 141-178. (electronic reserve) | |
| 13 | Tuesday, 11/15 | Personal Identity and Learning | Turkle, S. (1984). Adolescence and Identity: Finding Yourself in the Machine, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. New York: Simon and Schuster. (electronic reserve) | |
| 13 | Thursday, 11/17 | Power | Kohl, H. (1994). I Won't Learn From You, "I Won't Learn from You" and Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment (pp. 1-32). New York: The New Press. (electronic reserve) | |
| 14 | Tuesday, 11/22 | cancelled | -- | |
| 14 | Thursday, 11/24 | Thanksgiving - No Class | ||
| 15 | Tuesday, 11/29 | Presentations | ASSIGNMENT DUE: Software design #2 | |
| December | 15 | Thursday, 12/1 | Presentations | |
| 16 | Tuesday, 12/6 | Media Computation | Forte, A. & Guzdial, M. (2005). Motivation and non-majors in computer science: Identifying discrete audiences for introductory courses. IEEE Transactions on Education. (48)2: 248-253. | |
| 16 | Thursday, 12/8 | Learning by Design | Kolodner, J. L. (1997). Educational Implications of Analogy: A View From Case-Based Reasoning. American Psychologist, 52(1), 57-66. (electronic reserve) | |
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