Control Technology in Elementary Education: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Control Technology in Elementary Education, Held in ... 17-21, 1992: 116 (NATO ASI Subseries F:, 116) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540567100 ISBN 13: 9783540567103

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1993

Synopsis

Control technology is a new learning environment which offers the opportunity to take up the economic and educational challenge of enabling people to adapt to new technologies and use them to solve problems. Giving young children (and also adults) easy access to control technology introduces them to a learning environment where they can build their knowledge across a range of topics. As they build and program their own automata and robots, they learn to solve problems, work incollaboration, and be creative. They also learn more about science, electronics, physics, computer literacy, computer assisted manufacturing, and so on. This book, based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop in the Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology, presents a cross-curricular approach to learning about control technology. The recommended methodology is active learning, where the teacher's role is to stimulate the learner to build knowledge by providing him/her with appropriate materials (hardware and software) and suggestions to develop the target skills. The results are encouraging, although more tools are needed to help the learner to generalize from his/her concrete experiment in control technology as well as to evaluate its effect on the target skills. The contributions not only discuss epistemological controversies linked to such learning environments as control technology, but also report on the state of the art and new developments in the field and present some stimulating ideas.

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Synopsis

Control technology is a new learning environment whichoffers the opportunity to take up the economic andeducational challenge of enabling people to adapt to newtechnologies and use them to solve problems. Giving youngchildren (and also adults) easy access to control technologyintroduces them to a learning environment where they canbuild their knowledge across a range of topics. As theybuild and program their own automata and robots, they learnto solve problems, work incollaboration, and be creative. They also learn more about science, electronics, physics,computer literacy, computer assisted manufacturing, and soon. This book, based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop in theSpecial Programme on Advanced Educational Technology,presents a cross-curricular approach to learning aboutcontrol technology. The recommended methodology is activelearning, where the teacher's role is to stimulate thelearner to build knowledge by providing him/her withappropriate materials (hardware and software) andsuggestions to develop the target skills.

The results areencouraging, although more tools are needed to help thelearner to generalize from his/her concrete experiment incontrol technology as well as to evaluate its effect on thetarget skills. The contributions not only discussepistemological controversies linked to such learningenvironments as control technology, but also report on thestate of the art and new developments in the field andpresent some stimulating ideas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540567100
• ISBN 13: 9783540567103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Denis Brigitte