Software Goes to School

David N. Perkins is Co-director of Project Zero, Associate of the Educational Technology Center, and Senior Research Associate, all at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Judah L. Schwartz is Professor of Engineering Science and Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Professor of Education and Co-director at the Educational Technology Center at Harvard.Martha Stone Wiske is Co-director of the Educational Technology Center, Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, and Lecturer at Harvard.Mary Maxwell West is Senior Research Associate in the Program Evaluation & Research Group at Lesley College.

• ContributorsIntroductionPART I: Understanding Understanding1: Raymond S. Nickerson: Can Technology Help Teach for Understanding?2: Marianne Wiser: Use of History of Science to Understand and Remedy Students' Misconceptions about Heat and Temperature3: Susan Carey and Carol Smith: On Understanding the Nature of Scientific Knowledge4: Carlos E. Vasco: History of Mathematics as a Tool for Teaching Mathematics for Understanding5: David N. Perkins et al.: Inside UnderstandingPART II: Using Technology to Make a Distinctive Contribution6: Judah L. Schwartz: Shuttling Between the Particular and the General: Reflections of the Role of Conjecture and Hypothesis in the Generation of Knowledge in Science and Mathematics7: Joseph Snir, Carol Smith, and Lorraine Grosslight: Conceptually Enhanced Simulations: A Computer Tool for Science Teaching8: James J. Kaput: Creating Cybernetic and Psychological Ramps from the Concrete to the Abstract: Examples from Multiplicative Structures9: E. Paul Goldenberg: Multiple Representations: A Vehicle for Understanding Understanding10: Judah L. Schwartz: The Right Size Byte: Reflections of an Educational Software DesignerPART III: Connecting Educational Research and Practice11: Martha Stone Wiske: A Cultural Perspective on School-University Collaboration12: Magdalene Lampert: Managing the Tensions in Connecting Students' Inquiry with Learning Mathematics in School13: Joseph Snir and Carol Smith: Constructing Understanding in the Science Classroom: Integrating Laboratory Experiments, Student and Computer Models, and Class Discussion in Learning Scientific Concepts14: Steven H. Schwartz and David N. Perkins: Teaching the Metacurriculum: A New Approach to Enhancing Subject-Matter Learning15: Margaret Vickers and Jane Smalley: Integrating Computers into Classroom Teaching: Cross-National PerspectivesIndex