Notes for Week #10: From Criticisms to Visions II
Roger B. Blumberg, CS092, 227 CIT
http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/CS92.rbb11.html
Follow-up to Andy's Talk
- Reactions?
- The need to be clear about what "successful" means in edutech
generally, and in software in particular
- Why be optimistic?
- Cuban and Sandholtz, et al. support the idea
that educational software has never been given a fair chance.
- The opportunity for scientific evaluation, and what we expect
in the presentations that begin on Thursday.
- A possible and different future for edusoft: teacher as author.
Engines for Education by Roger Schank and Chip Cleary
- Why haven't we read this sooner?
- Schank's "script" idea (see his Scripts, plans, goals, and understanding: an inquiry into human knowledge structures or the more popular
Tell Me A Story).
- Returning to questions about the role of "technique" and "method" in
education.
- Tartaro's questions and notes for discussion.
For Thursday: Project presentations begin.
