An impassioned guide to how computers can fundamentally change how we learn and think.

Andrea diSessa's career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has been driven by one important question: can education—in particular, science education—be transformed by the computer so that children can learn more, learn more easily at an earlier age, and learn with pleasure and commitment? This book is diSessa's informed and passionate affirmative answer to that question.

While written at a level that anyone with a good acquaintance with high school science can understand, the book reflects the depth and breadth of the issues surrounding technology in education. Rejecting the simplistic notion that the computer is merely a tool for more efficient instruction, diSessa shows how computers can be the basis for a new literacy that will change how people think and learn. He discusses the learning theory that explains why computers can be such powerful catalysts for change in education, in particular, how intuitive knowledge is the platform on which students build scientific understanding. He also discusses the material and social reasons for the computer's potential and argues for "two-way literacies," where everyone is a creator as well as consumer of dynamic and interactive expressive forms. DiSessa gives many examples from his work using the Boxer computer environment, an integrated software system designed to investigate computational literacies.

一本关于计算机如何从根本上改变我们的学习和思考方式的慷慨指南。

安德里亚-迪塞萨作为学者、技术专家和教师的职业生涯一直被一个重要的问题所驱动：教育--特别是科学教育--能否被计算机所改变，从而使孩子们能够学到更多的东西，在更小的时候更容易学习，并在学习中获得乐趣和承诺？这本书是迪萨对这一问题作出的明智而热情的肯定性回答。

虽然本书的写作水平是任何熟知高中科学的人都能理解的，但它反映了围绕教育技术问题的深度和广度。迪塞萨拒绝了计算机仅仅是提高教学效率的工具这一简单化的概念，他展示了计算机如何成为改变人们思考和学习方式的新文化的基础。他讨论了学习理论，该理论解释了为什么计算机可以成为改变教育的强大催化剂，特别是直觉知识是如何成为学生建立科学理解的平台的。他还讨论了计算机潜力的物质和社会原因，并论证了 "双向识字"，即每个人都是动态和互动表达形式的创造者和消费者。DiSessa从他使用Boxer计算机环境的工作中给出了许多例子，Boxer是一个旨在研究计算能力的综合软件系统。