A Design Environment for Automata: Supporting Children’s Construction of Mechanical Reasoning and Spatial Cognition Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
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The new technologies that the world races to embrace affect every facet of our lives. But not every new technology makes our lives better. Choosing the wrong technology for an application often has serious and costly side effects. In this document I will examine some of the side effects which have been introduced as computers have become more ubiquitous in educational settings. I will then propose a system of tools for middle school age children to use in building the mechanisms for mechanical automata which addresses some of these side effects.
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