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Tools of Inquiry: Separating Tool and Task to Promote True Learning
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Beatham, Mark D. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2009
Teachers must clearly distinguish for students the educational technologies (the tools or means) used to investigate a subject from the subject (the task) itself. Without this distinction, students develop critical and fundamental misconceptions about their subjects of study, usually confusing the tool for the task. Digital educational…
Descriptors: Investigations, Educational Technology, Secondary School Teachers, Epistemology