Students participating in the technology-rich Schools for Thought program learn to acquire, evaluate, organize, and interpret information and communicate findings to their peers and to an adult, questioning audience. Evolving from three research-based programs, Schools For Thought features a rigorous, standards-based curriculum; careful…

Presents a theoretical systems model for computer-mediated conferencing. Discusses Habermas' criteria for emancipative discourse (i.e., liberation or emancipation is increasing a person's abilities and opportunities to make rational choices about matters important to that person). Demonstrates why computer conferencing is best suited to…

In this paper the theory that human thinking proceeds according to the computer model, or symbol manipulation, is reviewed and challenged. The research used as subjects five highly rated tournament chess players who "thought aloud" during a chess game to provide tape recorded protocols of decisions made while playing. These protocols…