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Facilitating Guided Participation through Mobile Technologies: Designing Creative Learning Environments for Self and Others
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Evans, Michael A.; Johri, Aditya – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2008
We appropriate Rogoff's ("Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context," 1991; in: Wertsch et al. (eds.) "Sociocultural studies of mind," 1993) notion of guided participation to demonstrate, through abbreviated case studies, our strategy for integrating mobile technology-based learning experiences in higher education. Guided…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Social Environment, Cognitive Development
Computers as Cognitive Tools: Learning with Technology, Not from Technology.
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Jonassen, David H. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1995
Cognitive tools, computer-based applications normally used as productivity software, can also function as knowledge representation formalisms that require learners to think critically. Databases, spreadsheets, semantic networks, expert systems, and multimedia/hypermedia construction can function as computer-based cognitive tools to expand student…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education