By Roger C. Schank and Chip Cleary, 1995

Today we will begin our discussion of blah, blah, blah…
Published in hyper-book as well as paper form, this book discusses what's wrong with the education system, how to reform it, and, especially, the role of educational technology in that reform. It describes the progress made at the Institute for the Learning Sciences using computers to provide motivating learning environments that let students learn things by doing them. The hyper-book version (available online) uses a method developed at ILS based on the metaphor of a question-answer conversation..

Read the web version of the hyperbook Engines for Education.

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By Roger C. Schank, 2004

In the author’s words: “This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today’s world.”
Schank’s argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government, or indeed to the daily life of people, as a society we believe that those educated in literature and history and other humanities are in some way better informed, more knowing, and somehow more worthy of descriptor ‘well-educated’.

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By Roger C. Schank, 1999

'It is all too often the case that after introducing an influential concept, the originator moves on to a new challenge or new problem, leaving others to test the implications of the conceptualization and otherwize 'tidy up' in its wake. In Dynamic Memory Revisited, Roger Schank bucks this trend. In particular, he addresses a persistent weakness of the script model, and extends the reformulation into the educational arena.'

Book review of Dynamic Memory Revisited
from Human Development

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