ISearch

ISearch
Author: Brian Kelly
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780205376407

Isearch

Isearch
Author: Allyn & Bacon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002-06
Genre: Computer network resources
ISBN: 9780205376353

Robots for Learning

Robots for Learning
Author: Wafa Johal
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2022-11-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 2832507085

ISearch 2003

ISearch 2003
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780321142825

Provides history students with URLs for the best history Web sites; MLA citation guidelines for writing papers; Internet research tools and tips; Web activities, etc.

Psychology and Mathematics Education

Psychology and Mathematics Education
Author: Gila Hanna
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2832529992

Modern Mathematics is constructed rigorously through proofs, based on truths, which are either axioms or previously proven theorems. Thus, it is par excellence a model of rational inquiry. Links between Cognitive Psychology and Mathematics Education have been particularly strong during the last decades. Indeed, the Enlightenment view of the rational human mind that reasons, makes decisions and solves problems based on logic and probabilities, was shaken during the second half of the twentieth century. Cognitive psychologists discovered that humans' thoughts and actions often deviate from rules imposed by strict normative theories of inference. Yet, these deviations should not be called "errors": as Cognitive Psychologists have demonstrated, these deviations may be either valid heuristics that succeed in the environments in which humans have evolved, or biases that are caused by a lack of adaptation to abstract information formats. Humans, as the cognitive psychologist and economist Herbert Simon claimed, do not usually optimize, but rather satisfice, even when solving problem. This Research Topic aims at demonstrating that these insights have had a decisive impact on Mathematics Education. We want to stress that we are concerned with the view of bounded rationality that is different from the one espoused by the heuristics-and-biases program. In Simon’s bounded rationality and its direct descendant ecological rationality, rationality is understood in terms of cognitive success in the world (correspondence) rather than in terms of conformity to content-free norms of coherence (e.g., transitivity).

The Handbook of Rationality

The Handbook of Rationality
Author: Markus Knauff
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 879
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 026236185X

The first reference on rationality that integrates accounts from psychology and philosophy, covering descriptive and normative theories from both disciplines. Both analytic philosophy and cognitive psychology have made dramatic advances in understanding rationality, but there has been little interaction between the disciplines. This volume offers the first integrated overview of the state of the art in the psychology and philosophy of rationality. Written by leading experts from both disciplines, The Handbook of Rationality covers the main normative and descriptive theories of rationality—how people ought to think, how they actually think, and why we often deviate from what we can call rational. It also offers insights from other fields such as artificial intelligence, economics, the social sciences, and cognitive neuroscience. The Handbook proposes a novel classification system for researchers in human rationality, and it creates new connections between rationality research in philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines. Following the basic distinction between theoretical and practical rationality, the book first considers the theoretical side, including normative and descriptive theories of logical, probabilistic, causal, and defeasible reasoning. It then turns to the practical side, discussing topics such as decision making, bounded rationality, game theory, deontic and legal reasoning, and the relation between rationality and morality. Finally, it covers topics that arise in both theoretical and practical rationality, including visual and spatial thinking, scientific rationality, how children learn to reason rationally, and the connection between intelligence and rationality.

ISearch--education

ISearch--education
Author: Eugene F. Provenzo
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780205376438

The I-search Paper

The I-search Paper
Author: Ken Macrorie
Publisher: Boynton/Cook
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1988
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This revised and retitled edition of Searching Writing includes two additional I-Search papers, one by a teacher, and a new chapter entitled "The Larger Context," which shows how the I Search concept can work throughout the whole curriculum in school and college. As with the first edition, The I-Search Paper is more than just a textbook; it's a new form of instructional help -- a context book -- that shows students what authority is in matters of learning and invites them to join the author and teacher in the educational movement called "Writing to Learn." To put this book in the hands of all the students in the course is not only to help them carry out an I-Search but to introduce them in a delightful way to the resources and tools of intellectual inquiry -- but one that never forgets the emotional or physical side of human activity. This is a rare textbook that treats students as partners in learning. It shows what it is to take charge of one's own learning and suggests that this move is one that productive people keep making throughout their lives.