Software Goes to School

In 1983, the Educational Technology Center, an organization of scholars and practitioners committed to exploring the role of technology in education, opened its doors at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The specific focus of the Center - and the focus of this book - was education in science, mathematics, and computing. This book is a progress report on that effort. The book contains three parts: Part I explores the nature of understanding; Part II focuses on technology's role in teaching for understanding, examining in particular the way software can construct "ramps" from the conrete to the abstract; Part III connects educational research to practice.