New Science of Learning Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Ed
The earliest educational software simply transferred print material from the page to the monitor. Since then, the Internet and other digital media have brought students an ever-expanding, low-cost knowledge base and the opportunity to interact with minds
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New Science of Learning Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education
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New Science of Learning
Myint Swe Khine · Issa M. Saleh Editors
New Science of Learning Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education
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Editors Myint Swe Khine Emirates College for Advanced Education United Arab Emirates [email protected]
Issa M. Saleh Emirates College for Advanced Education United Arab Emirates [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-5715-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-5716-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5716-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010921497 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
In The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov (1957), detective Elijah Bailey, assisted by his robot assistant Daneel Olivaw, is confronted by what appears to be an impossible crime. A man has been murdered for the first time in the history of the planet Solaria. The murder seems to be an impossible one, however. People on Solaria have virtually no contact with each other at all. Rather, they live on vast estates, surrounded only by robots. They have contact with each other through computers and even generation of holographic images, but that is all. Sex is carefully controlled and looked at as a disgusting necessity to maintain the small population of the planet. So who could have been the murderer, when there is no record of any human entry? The only possibilities are the robots, who are programmed absolutely not to kill, and the man’s wife, who had no known contact with him? In those days of my early teenage, I was an avid science fiction reader. When I first read Asimov’s book, I found the utterly dystopic futuristic society of Solaria fascinating. What an imagination Asimov had to create such a world! In contrast, when I read the science fiction series of Tom Swift—not Tom Swift, Jr., but rather the original Tom Swift, with his “aerial warship” and his “giant telescope” and his “motor-boat,” I found the books boring, because all of those things were common in the world in which I lived. These books, produced between 1910 and 1941, were worse than out of date because what had seemed like fantastic inventions and life experiences had all become mundane. What I did not r
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