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New Books of Note
Studying Virtual Math Teams
Stahl, G. (2009). Springer.
A comprehensive, integrated report on a major CSCL research effort, including chapters by 29 authors from the project team and 10 collaborating centers. It includes sections on project philosophy, pedagogy and technology; interaction analysis; methodology; software design; interaction representations; and theory. This is a follow-up to Stahl, G. (2006) "Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge", MIT Press, 510 pages—carrying out the kinds of development, interventions, analysis and theory building proposed there. You can download the book’s table of contents or a flyer with order form. The book is available in hardback and ebook (including as individual chapters) from Springer Press with a 25% discount for ISLS members, or from Amazon.
WISE Science: Inquiry and the Internet in the Science Classroom
Slotta, J. D. & Linn, M. C. (2009). Teachers College Press.
This book shares the lessons learned by a large community of educational researchers and science teachers as they designed, developed, and investigated a new technology-enhanced learning environment known as WISE: The Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment. WISE offers a collection of free, customizable curriculum projects on topics central to the science standards as well as guidance for teachers on how these Internet-based projects can be used to improve learning and instruction in their science classrooms (grades 6-12). Hundreds of teachers and over 100,000 students have learned from WISE projects taught in English, Norwegian, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Chinese, and Korean.
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America Allan Collins and Richard Halverson (2009). Teachers College Press
Allan Collins and Richard Halverson argue that the way computers have transformed our workplaces and lives can and should be adapted to transform American education. This groundbreaking book offers a vision for the future that goes well beyond the walls of the classroom to include online social networks, distance learning, digital home schooling models, video games, and more.
Argumentation and Education: Theoretical Foundations and Practices
Muller Mirza, Nathalie; Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly (Eds.) Springer 2009
During the last decade, argumentation has attracted growing attention as a means to elicit processes (linguistic, logical, dialogical, psychological, etc.) that can sustain or provoke reasoning and learning. Constituting an important dimension of daily life and of professional activities, argumentation plays a special role in democracies and is at the heart of philosophical reasoning and scientific inquiry. Argumentation, as such, requires specific intellectual and social skills. Hence, argumentation will have an increasing importance in education, both because it is an important competence that has to be learned, and because argumentation can be used to foster learning in philosophy, history, sciences and in many other domains. However, learning argumentation and learning by arguing, at school, still raise theoretical and methodological questions such as: How do learning processes develop in argumentation? How to design effective argumentative activities? How can the argumentative efforts of pupils can be sustained? What are the psychological issues involved when arguing with others? How to evaluate and analyze the learners' productions? Argumentation and Education answers these and other questions by providing both theoretical backgrounds, in psychology, education and theory of argumentation, and concrete examples of experiments and results in school contexts in a range of domains. It reports on existing innovative practices in education settings at various levels.
