Portable Technologies: Science Learning in Context

by Joseph S. Krajcik and Robert Tinker

Education has traditionally studied the world by bringing it into the classroom. This can result in situated learning that appears to students to have no relevance outside the classroom. Students acquire inert, decontextualized knowledge that they cannot apply to real problems. The obvious solution to this shortcoming is to reverse the situation and bring the classroom to the phenomena: to learn in a rich, real-world context. The problem with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306466430
• ISBN13: 9780306466434
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"