Learning to Solve Problems with Technology: A Constructivist Perspective

by David H. Jonassen, Jane Howland, Joi Moore

Rather than focus on technology as a tool to teach with, this book stresses that technology?video, hypermedia, the Internet, etc.?is an excellent tool to learn with. The emphasis is on learning to solve problems. By concentrating on problem solving with several specific media, the authors show how a variety of technologies can be used to engage students in personally and socially constructed meaning. They address the Internet, and how it can be used to foster community building; video, and how naturally students take to being behind the camera; and multimedia, as a new form of interactive literacy. The Internet material also includes a section on creating a personal or group website, plus coverage of cybermentoring. For teachers in computer classes and media centers?of students at all grade levels.

272 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2002

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a valuable resource available from the UNE library. The Amazon site contains a useful excerpt that outlines the important ideas in each of the chapters.

We live in the information age. In order to function in that world, students must learn how to be information producers, not just consumers. This book provides a new look at how educational technologies can support knowledge construction through production rather than knowledge reproduction. When educational technologies are used as knowledge construction tools, students are naturally and necessarily engaged in meaningful learning, which should be the goal of all educators.

[Tshering]

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