Children Designers - Interdisciplinary Constructions for Learning and Knowing Mathematics in a Computer-Rich School

In this book, the author presents a new vision of learning through design and production, and describes computer programming as a source of a learning and design power. As means of studying this extended notion of children's programming, the author implemented Instructional Software Design Projects to explore the learning that takes place when students develop complete mathematical software products designed for other students in their school. The results demonstrate that the young designers learned not only about mathematics (fractions) and programming (Logo), but also about design and user interfaces, as well as representational, pedagogical, and communicational issues.

List of contents

Design for Learning
Why, How, & Where Design for Learning
Debbie's Case
Results from the Comparative Evaulation
Discussion of Conclusions
Children Designers: What was Accomplished

About the author

Idit Harel

Product details

• Authors: Idit Harel, Harel Idit
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1991
• EAN: 9780893917883
• ISBN: 978-0-89391-788-3
• No. of pages: 434
• Weight: 624 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; COMPUTERS / General, Computing & Information Technology, Computing and Information Technology, Current Events and Issues: Education