Synopses & Reviews
In 1991, Denis Hlynka and John Belland released Paradigms Regained, a well received reader for graduate students in the field of educational technology. The Role of Criticism in Understanding Problem Solving updates some of those ideas initially proposed in Paradigms Regained, and extends the conversation into the contemporary discourse regarding problem based learning (PBL). Paradigms proposed the idea of criticism as a third method for the conduction of educational research,
Synopsis
Updating ideas concerning the role criticism can play in educational technology, this book revisits the central concepts of criticism and establishes their utility in the analysis of educational technology interventions to support problem-based learning.
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-1. Argumentation, Critical Reasoning and Problem Solving. -2. Postmodernism: A 21st Century Primer to Problem-based Learning.-3.What Does a Connoisseur Conna t?-4. Developing a Critical Stance as an E-Learning Specialist: A Primer for New Professionals.-5. Critical Theory and the Mythology of Learning with Technology.-6. Habitus, Scaffolding, and Problem-based Learning: Why Teachers' Experiences as Students Matter.-7.The Aesthetics of Game-based Learning: Applying John C. Belland's Connoisseurship Model as a Mode of Inquiry.-8. Integrating Metacognitive Prompts and Critical Inquiry Process Display to Scaffold Learners' Development of Problem Solving Skills.-9. A Models and Modeling Perspective on Complex Reasoning Contrasted with Problem-Based Learning.-10. Problem-Based Learning in Online Teacher Education.-11. The Fallacies of Problem-Based Learning Viewed as in a Hermeneutic Perspective of Better Teaching Practices.-12. Design for Media (D4M): Nurturing the Transition of Media Arts Students from Consumers to Producers through the Application of Design and Color Theory.-13. Genetic Literacy and Problem-Based Learning.-14. Correlating Problems throughout an Interdisciplinary Curriculum.-15. Ethical angles on service learning.-16. Conclusions: Critical Theory, PBL, and Educational Technology.
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The concept of criticism as a tool for research, although well established in other
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