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Peer reviewedMetz, Kathleen E.; Hammer, David M. – Interactive Learning Environments, 1993
Discusses the term microworld; develops a conceptual framework to analyze the sense in which the world metaphor may or may not hold; and describes a study of high school physics students working individually with the computer microworld "Elmira" that was conducted to analyze how their thinking was worldlike. (Contains 11 references.)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, High Schools
Peer reviewedGuzdial, Mark – Interactive Learning Environments, 1994
Discussion of the use of programming as a learning activity focuses on software-realized scaffolding. Emile, software that facilitates programming for modeling and simulation in physics, is described, and results of an evaluation of the use of Emile with high school students are reported. (Contains 95 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Courseware, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedHarel, Idit; Papert, Seymour – Interactive Learning Environments, 1990
Describes the Instructional Software Design Project conducted in a LOGO-based learning environment in a Boston inner-city public school with fourth graders engaged in the design and production of educational software to teach fractions. Constructionist views of computers in education are discussed, and learning processes are examined. (Contains 58…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development
Peer reviewedScardamalia, M.; And Others – Interactive Learning Environments, 1992
Presents results from elementary school classroom uses of the Computer Supported Integrated Learning Environments (CSILE) software that stores student productions, including text and graphics, in one database to which all users have simultaneous access. Educational uses, effects, and outcomes of CSILE are described; and knowledge construction is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
