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Guzdial, 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

Shabo, Amnon; Guzdial, Mark; Stasko, John – Computers & Education, 1997
Discusses cognitive apprenticeship, an educational practice that focuses on students actively engaged in activities with a variety of supports, or scaffolding. Presents a model of scaffolding that was implemented in courseware for learning computer graphics on the World Wide Web. An evaluation on the use of the courseware at Georgia Institute of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware