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Using a case-based approach, this volume focuses on constructing explanations. All chapters relate to the problem of building computer programs that can develop hypotheses about what might have caused an observed event, an ability that is a hallmark of human intelligence.

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 argues that no matter how important science and technology are, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history and other humanities are more worthy of the descriptor "well educated.

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This book elaborates the artificial intelligence theories behind the Case-Based Teaching Architecture developed at the Institute for the Learning Sciences. The book is for anyone who wants a technical discussion, but who is not a trained AI researcher.

From Roger C. Schank--one of the most highly respected thinkers, writers, and speakers in the training, learning, and e-learning community--comes a compelling book of essays that explore the myriad issues related to challenges faced by today's instructional designers and trainers. The essays offer a much-needed perspective on what trainers do, why they do it, and how they do it. "Lessons in Learning, e-Learning, and Training" serves as a barom...

Crucial reading for those concerned with education and school reform.

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From grade school to graduate school, from the poorest public institutions to the most affluent private ones, our educational system is failing students. In his provocative new book, cognitive scientist and bestselling author Roger Schank argues that class size, lack of parental involvement, and other commonly-cited factors have nothing to do with why students are not learning. The culprit is a system of subject-based instruction and the solut...

First published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This study provides a program overview of acquisition options available for the Commonwealth of Australia's next generation naval surface combatant and identifies internal and external factors that can influence a major ship acquisition program.

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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. "Scroo...

Roger Schank is outraged. He has had it with the stupid, lazy, greedy, cynical, and uninformed forces setting outrageous education policy, wrecking childhood, and preparing students for a world that will never exist. His keen intellect, courage, and razor-sharp wit cuts away several layers of conventional wisdom, causing readers to confront their own prejudices and school-distorted notions of learning. No sacred cow is off limit - even som...

It is not unusual for a festschrift to include offerings from several areas of study, but it is highly unusual for those areas to cross disciplinary lines. This book, in doing just that, is a testimony to Bob Abelson's impact on the disciplines of social psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and the applied areas of political psychology and decision-making. The contributors demonstrate that their association with Abelson, ...

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 argues that no matter how important science and technology are, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history and other humanities are more worthy of the descriptor "well educated.

Crucial reading for those concerned with education and school reform.

This book elaborates the artificial intelligence theories behind the Case-Based Teaching Architecture developed at the Institute for the Learning Sciences. The book is for anyone who wants a technical discussion, but who is not a trained AI researcher./P>

This volume describes the progress being made at The Institute for the Learning Sciences using computers to provide motivating environments for learning. The text documents the authors' work from the cognitive psychology which underlies it.

A myth shattering prescription for raising intellectually engaged, self-starting kids.