Background
Schank, Roger Carl was born on March 12, 1946 in New York City. Son of Maxwell and Margaret (Rosenberg) Schank.
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Most six-year-olds can't wait to go to school on that first day in September. It's a sign of coming of age. They get to go to school like the big kids. For an alarmingly large number of these children, however, boredom, anxiety, and fear of learning quickly set in. This happens because societies build schools that achieve much less than they promise, are frustrating for students, and generally fail to help children become adults who can think for themselves. The development of flexible, inquiring minds has rarely been the primary consideration in the design of educational systems. Making students into proper members of society has usually been of much greater concern than developing students who are creative thinkers. Today's schools are organized around yesterday's ideas, needs, and resources. The purpose of this volume is to raise consciousness about the changes needed in the educational system. It is concerned with what is wrong with the educational system and how to improve it. It presents a pragmatic view of what education could be through the use of computer technology -- technology permitting us to pursue the radical notion that children must be allowed to guide their own education because interested learners learn more. Children can and will become voracious learners if they are in charge of their own education. This does not mean letting them play video games all day, but it does mean allowing them to pursue the intellectual goals that interest them, rather than being force-fed knowledge according to someone else's schedule. The school system must face the responsibility of creating learning environments that are so much fun that children cannot wait to get up in the morning and go to school. This volume describes the progress being made at The Institute for the Learning Sciences using computers to provide motivating environments for learning -- environments that enable students to explore new worlds, and learn things by doing them. This technology will allow society to support what is one of the most important parts of a good educational system: the cultivation of individual initiative in students. This text documents the authors' work from the cognitive psychology which underlies it on through to guided tours of a number of the software learning environments they've developed. The CD ROM version of Engines for Education illustrates the types of innovative education software being developed at the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. In addition to providing tours of seven different ILS programs, the CD ROM itself provides an example of a new form of hypermedia system developed at ILS. Containing the complete text of the book with full-text search, the CD ROM enables readers to move fluidly between pages as they would with a traditional book; it also engages the reader through question-answer interactions with the system. Hardware Requirements: Macintosh (not a Macintosh Power PC) with 16M of RAM (13M of free RAM) and a CD ROM Drive. Software Requirements: System 7 (or later version) and Quicktime.
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(First published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
First published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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(To hear politicians talk, one would think the entire purp...)
To hear politicians talk, one would think the entire purpose of school is to assess children rather than educate them. Excitement about learning doesn't seem to be on anyone's agenda. The villains are those who profit from testing mania, make the tests, coach for testing, publish the books on which the tests are based, and believe that the results matter. Children are being taught things they don't need to know and nobody seems to care. Scrooge Meets Dick and Jane is a cautionary tale of the dangers of educational testing and outmoded curriculum design. Bringing a new twist to Charles Dickens' classic story, A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is recast as the head of an educational testing service. He is faced with the ghosts of Education Past, Present, and Future as well as his former mentor, John Dewey. As he observes a horrible future, he comes to understand the harm he has done and its repercussions on the school system. His time with the ghosts and John Dewey leads him to a dramatic turnaround regarding schools and scholastic teaching. It haunts him until he decides to undo the damage he has done to children all over the world.
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(Roger Schank's influential book, Dynamic Memory (CUP 1982...)
Roger Schank's influential book, Dynamic Memory (CUP 1982), described how computers could learn based on what was known about how people learn. Since that book's publication, Dr. Schank has turned his focus from artificial intelligence to human intelligence. Dynamic Memory Revisited contains the theory of learning presented in the original book, extending it to provide principles for teaching and learning, and includes Dr. Schank's important theory of case-based reasoning and assesses the role of stories in human memory. Dynamic Memory Revisited is crucial reading for all who are concerned with education and school reform. It draws attention to how effective learning takes place and provides instruction for developing software that truly helps students learn.
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( How are our memories, our narratives, and our intellige...)
How are our memories, our narratives, and our intelligence interrelated? What can artificial intelligence and narratology say to each other? In this pathbreaking study by an expert on learning and computers, Roger C. Schank argues that artificial intelligence must be based on real human intelligence, which consists largely of applying old situations, and our narratives of them, to new situations in less than obvious ways.
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(We must learn to ask the right questions. What is creativ...)
We must learn to ask the right questions. What is creative attitude? It is, among other things, the desire to go against the mainstream. The creative attitude entail posing one's own questions of others, and it is not always easy to get away with such a point of view.
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( So begins this controversial and enlightened book by Ro...)
So begins this controversial and enlightened book by Roger Schank, Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on teaming, who believes that every day of the school year our children are being failed by an academic system that does nothing to stir a lifelong passion for learning. In this lively, sometimes alarming book, Schank shatters the myths about how children learn and offers candid advice for parents who want to raise kids with gumption, ambition, creativity, inquisitiveness, and analytic and verbal proficiency.
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"Schank's success designing teaching software has made him a much sought after figure among businesses, military clients, and universities." -The New York Times The majority of corporate training programs are weak, ineffective, costly, and inconvenient for the time-pressed employees they are supposed to train. Designing World-Class e-Learning explores on-line learningÂÂ--today's hottest business training topicÂÂ--and explains the "learning-by-doing" approach that the author and his firm have used to develop effective on-line courses for Harvard Business School, IBM, GE, Columbia University, and other world-leading organizations. Roger Schank, a leading E-learning guru and innovator, demonstrates steps and strategies proven to excite employees, make them want to learn, and decrease training costs while increasing productivity. Schank's approach to E-learning involves: • e-Learning by doing • Encouraging learners to fail--ÂÂand learn from failure • Just-in-time storytelling from experts • Powerful emotional impact
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Computer science and psychology educator
Schank, Roger Carl was born on March 12, 1946 in New York City. Son of Maxwell and Margaret (Rosenberg) Schank.
Bachelor of Science, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1966. Master of Arts, University Texas, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1969.
Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1976.
Assistant professor linguistics and computer science, Stanford (California) U., 1968-1974;
research fellow, Institute Semantics and Cognition, Castagnola, Switzerland, 1973-1974;
associate professor computer science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1974-1976;
professor computer science and psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1976-1989;
department chairman computer science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1980-1985;
John Evans professor computer science, psychology and education, director, Institute for Learning Sciences Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1989. President, Chairman of the Board Cognitive Sys., Incorporated, New York Haven, 1981-1988. President, chairman Computeach, Inc., 1982-1988.
Chairman, chief technical officer Learning Sciences Corporation, since 1995.
( How are our memories, our narratives, and our intellige...)
(Roger Schank's influential book, Dynamic Memory (CUP 1982...)
( "Schank's success designing teaching software has made ...)
(To hear politicians talk, one would think the entire purp...)
(Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Pres...)
(Most six-year-olds can't wait to go to school on that fir...)
( So begins this controversial and enlightened book by Ro...)
(Language, learning and artificial intelligence.)
(We must learn to ask the right questions. What is creativ...)
(First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
(First published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
(First Edition)
(1985 1st Pb. Addison Wesley)
Member Cognitive Science Society (founder).
Children: Hana, Joshua.