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Direct linkPatterson, Thomas F.; Leonard, Jonathan G. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2005
We have concluded that teaching undergraduate students to use spreadsheet software to analyze, interpret, and communicate spreadsheet data through a graph is an information technology exercise in whole brain thinking. In investigating why our students have difficulty constructing proper graphs, we have discovered that graphing requires two…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graphs, Computer Software, Information Technology
Peer reviewedJonassen, 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
