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Dr. William Michael “Mike” Reed was an accomplished, dedicated, and recognized educator in instructional technology. Strongly rooted in the classroom, Mike was driven in the early 1980 s and 1990 s to explore the uses of computers in education beyond computer literacy itself. His work evolved from the possible connections between computer literacy and problem solving (computer programming and use as a means to increase problem-solving ability), to the use of computers in the creative writing process (computers as a tool in a higher-order process), to hypermedia and multimedia, to structure to-be-learned material (computers as a design extension). In the process he was at the forefront of the movement from computing in education as a means unto itself to computing as a learner, and designer, tool.
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Liu, M., Burton, J. (2010). W. Michael Reed: At the Beginnings Using Computers in Education for Higher-Order Learning. In: Orey, M., Jones, S., Branch, R. (eds) Educational Media and Technology Yearbook. Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, vol 35. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1516-0_16
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