ABSTRACT
We asked the authors of this volume to write chapters on “Constructivism in the Computer Age” to share with us their perceptions of educational gains and theoretical insights already realized in the computer age. More important, we asked them, given their sense of what has been accomplished, to speak to the potential of “computers,” and the myriad hard and soft technologies implied by that term, for our understanding of the developing mind in formal and informal educational environments. In setting this task, we realized that because we are at the beginning of the “computer age,” our authors would have to speculate about the potential of computers. They have speculated about future computer technology and how new technology will transform the way we construct our reality and, particularly, the way we think about ourselves as epistemic beings.
