The Design of Future Educational Interfaces

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The Design of Future Educational Interfaces provides a new multidisciplinary synthesis of educational interface research. It explains how computer interfaces can be redesigned to better support our ability to produce ideas, think, and solve problems successfully in national priority areas such as science and mathematics. Based on first-hand research experience, the author offers a candid analysis of emerging technologies and their impact, highlighting communication interfaces that stimulate thought. The research results will surprise readers and challenge their assumptions about existing technology and its ability to support our performance. In spite of a rapid explosion of interest in educational technologies, there remains a poor understanding of what constitutes an effective educational interface for student cognition and learning. This book provides valuable insights into why recent large-scale evaluations of existing educational technologies have frequently not shown demonstrable improvements in student performance. The research presented here is grounded in cognitive science and experimental psychology, linguistic science and communications, cross-cultural cognition and language, computer science and human interface design, and the learning sciences and educational technology. Content: Cover The Design of Future Educational Interfaces Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Preface: Suggestions for Teaching with This Book Acknowledgments Introduction PART I Evolutionary and Neurological Basis for Educational Interface Design 1 Innovative Tool Use, Cognitive Evolution, and Implications for Educational Interfaces PART II Existing and Future Interfaces 2 Keyboard Interfaces: The Bottleneck Constricting Communication and Performance. 3 Rethinking the Interface as a Communications Power Tool for Stimulating Ideas and Problem Solving4 Rethinking the Interface as a Communications Power Tool for Supporting Inferential Reasoning 5 Emerging Interface Directions for Supporting Conceptual Change PART III Foundational Elements of Communications Interface Design 6 Support for Multiple Representations 7 Support for Multiple Modalities 8 Support for Multiple Linguistic Codes 9 Theoretical Frameworks for Advancing Educational Interfaces PART IV Building Educational Interfaces of the Future. 10 Designing Integrated Interfaces that Stimulate Activity11 Fostering Meta-Awareness about Technology and Its Impact 12 Implications for Future Empirical, Theoretical and Policy Directions Appendix: Supplementary Teaching Materials References Index.