Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in A Digital World

by Kafai; Yasmin B.

• ISBN13: 9780805819847
• ISBN10: 0805819843
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136491429
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Yasmin B. Kafai
Mitchel Resnick
PART I: PERSPECTIVES IN CONSTRUCTIONISM
A Word for Learning	9	(16)
Seymour Papert
Perspective-Taking and Object Construction: Two Keys to Learning	25	(12)
Edith Ackermann
Elementary School Children's Images of Science	37	(34)
Aaron A. Brandes
PART II: LEARNING THROUGH DESIGN
Learning Design by Making Games: Children's Development of Design Strategies in the Creation of a Complex Computational Artifact	71	(26)
Yasmin B. Kafai
Electronic Play Worlds: Gender Differences in Children's Construction of Video Games	97	(28)
Yasmin B. Kafai
The Art of Design	125	(36)
Gregory Gargarian
Building and Learning With Programmable Bricks	161	(14)
Randy Sargent
Mitchel Resnick
Fred Martin
Brian Silverman
PART III: LEARNING IN COMMUNITIES
Social Constructionism and the Inner City: Designing Environments for Social Development and Urban Renewal	175	(32)
Alan Shaw
The MediaMOO Project: Constructionism and Professional Community	207	(16)
Amy Bruckman
Mitchel Resnick
A Community of Designers: Learning Through Exchanging Questions and Answers	223	(18)
Michele Evard
``They Have Their Own Thoughts'': A Story of Constructionist Learning in an Alternative African-Centered Community School	241	(14)
Paula K. Hooper
PART IV: LEARNING ABOUT SYSTEMS
New Paradigms for Computing, New Paradigms for Thinking	255	(14)
Mitchel Resnick
Making Sense of Probability Through Paradox and Programming: A Case Study in a Connected Mathematics Framework	269	(28)
Uri Wilensky
Ideal and Real Systems: A Study of Notions of Control in Undergraduates Who Design Robots	297	(26)
Fred G. Martin
Author Index	323	(6)
Subject Index	329