Constructionism in Practice

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ISBN: 0805819851

Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in A Digital World

The digital revolution necessitates, but also makes possible, radical changes in how and what we learn. Download Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in A Digital World from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. This book describes a set of innovative educational research projects at the MIT Media Laboratory, illustrating how new computational technologies can transform our conceptions of learning, education, and knowledge. The book draws on real-world education experiments conducted in formal and informal contexts: from inner-city schools and university labs to neighborhoods and after-school clubhouses. The papers in this book are divided in four interrelated sections as follows:

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