By Andrea A. DiSessa, Celia Hoyles, Richard Noss, L.D. Edwards
Computers are enjoying a primary position in bettering exploratory studying strategies in schooling. This quantity within the NATO particular Programme on complicated academic know-how covers the state-of-the-art within the layout and use of desktops for exploratory studying. Contributed chapters deal with rules, conception, perform, and examples of a few of the simplest modern computer-based studying environments: emblem, Boxer, Microworlds, Cabri-Géomètre, megastar emblem, desk best, Geomland, spreadsheets, functionality Machines, and others. Emphasis is on arithmetic and technology schooling. artificial chapters offer an outline of the present scene in pcs and exploratory studying, and analyses from the views of epistemology, studying, and socio-cultural studies.
Read or Download Computers and Exploratory Learning PDF
Similar intelligence & semantics books
This quantity provides the lawsuits of the 16th German convention on synthetic Intelligence, held within the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Berlin from August 31 to September three, 1992. the quantity comprises 24 papers presentedin the technical periods, eight papers chosen from the workshop contributions, and an invited speak via D.
Within the 20th century, common sense ultimately came upon a few very important purposes and diverse new components of analysis originated then, specially after the improvement of computing and the growth of the correlated domain names of information (artificial intelligence, robotics, automata, logical programming, hyper-computation, and so forth.
Support Vector Machines and Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification: Single or Together?
While discussing type, aid vector machines are identified to be a able and effective strategy to examine and expect with excessive accuracy inside a brief time-frame. but, their black field potential to take action make the sensible clients particularly circumspect approximately hoping on it, with out a lot realizing of the how and why of its predictions.
Behavioral Program Synthesis with Genetic Programming
Genetic programming (GP) is a well-liked heuristic technique of software synthesis with origins in evolutionary computation. during this generate-and-test procedure, candidate courses are iteratively produced and evaluated. The latter consists of working courses on exams, the place they express advanced behaviors mirrored in adjustments of variables, registers, or reminiscence.
- Computational Intelligence: A Methodological Introduction
- The quest for artificial intelligence: A history of ideas and achievements
- Feedforward Neural Network Methodology (Springer Series in Statistics)
- Machine Learning. The New AI
- Rationality and Intelligence
Extra resources for Computers and Exploratory Learning
Example text
Since the turtles had random headings, they all moved in random directions. But their overall pattern was anything but random. After each turtle had moved forward five steps, they formed a circle of radius 5, centered on the point (0,0). After each turtle had moved another five steps, they formed a circle of radius 10. So the overall effect was an expanding circle. The circle grew until it reached a radius of 50. " In traditional turtle geometry, the Logo turtle uses a "pen" to draw geometric shapes and patterns.
For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not. -L. Wittgenstein We do not deal with philosophy here. But the questions which are posed again and again in this book are of such a general nature that they deserve to be treated as philosophical questions; in the sense that, more than answers, they seem to ask for new questions--questions of an equally general, but more fundamental nature, and therefore less contingent to the specific need of professional people to justify and to rationalize their activity and their interests.
1993d). We think that it is here that the existence of a global qualitative model emerges. By this we mean that pupils will say: "it grows," "it grows and then stops," "it goes down all the time," "it is regular," etc. And at the same time they will evoke this growth, this change by a gesture. It is not a neutral gesture, neither is it a noncontextual, generic indication of change. , 1993d). From this global qualitative model, whose formulation seems only in part to take into account the details of the observational data,S we go to the formulation of tentative, local qualitative models ofthe underlying phenomenon.