Professor
of Education and Learning Sciences
Stanford University
roy.pea@stanford.edu
At Bank Street from 1984-1986, IBM funded the Cognitive Skills for an Information Age project, which I directed.
With this effort, we sought to build on what we had learned about fostering educational conditions for the learning of metacognitive, planning, and problem solving in the context of Logo programming.
Our approach was to work with educators and children to prototype and conduct research with IDEA—an Interactive Decision Envisioning Aide—which would support upper elementary and older learners in reflecting on choices and criteria for making effective decisions. Here are some exemplary articles:
Pea, R. D. (1987).
Socializing the knowledge transfer problem. International Journal of Educational
Research, 11, 639-663.
Pea, R. D. (1988). Putting knowledge to use. In R. S. Nickerson & P. Zodhiates
(Eds.), Technology in education in the year 2020, pp. 169-212. Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum.
Thornburg, D.G., & Pea, R.D. (1990). Synthesizing instructional technologies
and educational culture: Exploring cognition and metacognition in the social
studies. J. of Educational Computing Research.
Cognitive Skills for an Information Age