Dynamic Memory Revisited

Roger C. Schank

ISBN 10: 0521633028 / ISBN 13: 9780521633024

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dynamic Memory Revisited
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521633028
• ISBN 13: 9780521633024
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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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"Roger Schank's influential book Dynamic Memory described how computers could learn based upon what was known about how people learn. Since that book's publication in 1983, 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, extended to provide principles for teaching and learning. It includes Dr. Schank's important theory of case-based reasoning and assesses the role of stories in human memory. In addition, it covers his ideas on nonconscious learning, indexing, and the cognitive structures that underlie learning by doing."--BOOK JACKET. "Dynamic Memory Revisited is for all who are concerned with education and school reform. It draws attention to how effective learning takes place, and it provides ideas for developing software that truly helps students learn."--BOOK JACKET.