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Kirschenbaum, Matthew – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The author advocates that humanities scholars should seek and study programming languages. He believes that, increasingly, an appreciation of how complex ideas can be imagined and expressed as a set of formal procedures--rules, models, algorithms--in the virtual space of a computer will be an essential element of a humanities education. Students…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Student Motivation, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Mediated Communication
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Fourez, Gerard; Mathy, Philippe; Englebert-Lecomte, Veronique – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 1997
Examines the purpose of scientific teaching, proposes a model for an interdisciplinary approach that can be applied in teaching and in real life, and provides guidelines that can be used in teaching as well as in concrete situations. Contains 46 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Epistemology, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Knowledge Representation
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Radford, Luis – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1997
Contributes to a reflection on the possibilities and the limits of a non-naive use of the history of mathematics for educational purposes. Discusses a problem related to the hypotheses that make it possible to confront past and modern conceptual developments. Contains 45 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cultural Context, Educational History, Educational Strategies