The Interactive Classroom

Abstract

The next speaker earned his Ph.D. in Computer-Information Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1978. From 1981 to 1988, he taught at Yale in the departments of Psychology and Computer Science, and since 1988, he’s been an associate professor at the University of Michigan both in the School of Education and the Department of Electrical Engineering in Computer Science. He’s also professor of Information—libraries, that is—and since his first degree is in philosophy, he’s what we might call a well-rounded chap. He holds a number of extremely distinguished teaching awards, and he’s published more stuff on artificial intelligence and education than you can shake a mouse at, including a couple of pieces that caught my eye. One was called “How the Nintendo Generation Learns,” and another called “Beware of Techies Bearing Gifts.”