Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: “Design, Learning, and Collaboration” — Spring Semester 2006General Remark for all assignments:always remember the statement by Blaise Pascal: “I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it shorter.” in case you have used specific resources for your answers, please name those (especially if you use them literally) Assignment 1due: 1. Wednesday, January 25, 2005; 10am on the class website — max length: two pages 2. you can work as a group and submit one answer as a group (clearly identifying the members of your group) Read the articleFischer, G. (1998) "Making Learning a Part of Life-Beyond the 'Gift-Wrapping' Approach of Technology." Notes from 6/96 NSF Symposium on Learning and Intelligent Systems available at: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/presentations/gf-wlf/Briefly discuss the following issues:1. what did you find 1.1. interesting about the article? 1.2. not interesting about the article? 2. what do you consider the main message of the article? 3. “gift-wrapping” 3.1. how would you (in your own words) explain the concept ? 3.2. can you give examples of “gift-wrapping”? 3.3. can you give counter-examples of “gift-wrapping”?? 4. global learning theories and approaches 4.1. do you know any of the people mentioned in the diagrams: 4.1.1. Skinner 4.1.2. Piaget 4.1.3. Papert 4.1.4. Illich 4.1.5. Vygotsky 4.1.6. Dewey 4.1.7. 4.2. select one of the six 4.2.1. in case you know something ‡ write a paragraph what she/he has contributed to a deeper understanding of learning? 4.2.2. in case you do not know anyone, find out something about her/him ‡ write a paragraph what she/he has contributed to a deeper understanding of learning? 5. identify one website (and mention the URL) which you consider interesting and relevant for “learning”! Write a one paragraph justification for your choice! please upload your answers to this location using a filename "hw1-firstnamelastname"use a color of your choice to make your answers easy to identify – e.g.: green text.hw1-laolengxiong.doc hw1-keisukenishimoto.doc hw1-nathancampbell-lisadoan.doc hw1-maltewinkler.doc hw1-marklewisprazen.doc HW1_Min-Chieh_Hung.doc hw1-cortneygermain.rtf Gary Knoll John Lansing - HW1.doc hw1-kirill-kireyev.doc
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