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Design of Computer-Based Cognitive Tools

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Computers and Exploratory Learning

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NATO ASI F,volume 146))

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Human cognitive activities are characterized by effort toward making sense of one’s world. This effort entails actively constructing hypotheses about the world, conducting inquiries to test hypotheses, interacting with the environment, reflecting upon experience and constructing and restructuring structures of thought that constitute one’s understanding (Bruner and Haste, 1987; Glaser and Bassok, 1989). Making sense takes place in a social world where language, interaction and cognition are interwoven in developing intersubjective meaning through negotiations of individual understandings (Bruner and Haste, 1987).

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  1. Shell Centre for Mathematical Education, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK

    Emrah Orhun

  2. Bilgisayar Mühendisligi, Ege Üniversitesi, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

    Emrah Orhun

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  1. Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley, 4533 Tolman Hall, 94720-1670, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Andrea A. diSessa

  2. Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, University of London, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL, London, UK

    Celia Hoyles  & Richard Noss  & 

  3. Crown College, University of California at Santa Cruz, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Laurie D. Edwards

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Orhun, E. (1995). Design of Computer-Based Cognitive Tools. In: diSessa, A.A., Hoyles, C., Noss, R., Edwards, L.D. (eds) Computers and Exploratory Learning. NATO ASI Series, vol 146. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57799-4_17

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