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GSE Profiles
 | Andrea A. diSessa
Professor
Cognition and Development
Office: 4647 Tolman
Phone: 510 642-0745
Email: adisessa@soe.berkeley.edu
Website: soe.berkeley.edu/boxer | Staff Contact: Kate Capps
Office: 4533 Tolman
Phone: 510 642-4206
Email: kate@berkeley.edu
C
orey Professor of Education Andrea diSessa is a member of the National Academy of Education. His research centers around conceptual and experiential knowledge in physics, and principles for designing flexible and comprehensible computer systems. He is the director of the Boxer Computer Environment Project. Boxer is an integrated system that allows non-experts, including teachers and students, to perform a broad range of tasks, including programming. His current work focuses on student ideas concerning "patterns of behavior and control" and the development of the concept of force. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1997-98. He wrote the books Changing Minds: Computers, Learning and Literacy (2000); and Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (with H. Abelson, 1981); and edited the volume Computers and Exploratory Learning (with C. Hoyles, R. Noss, and L. Edwards, 1995). He has written numerous articles, including "Toward an Epistemology of Physics," in Cognition and Instruction (1993); "Local Sciences: Viewing the Design of Human-Computer Systems as Cognitive Science," in Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface (1991); and "What Do 'Just Plain Folk' Know about Physics," in The Handbook of Education and Human Development: New Models of Learning, Teaching and Schooling (1996).
Ph.D., MIT, Physics
A.B., Princeton, Physics, suma cum laude
Areas of Specialization / Interests
Curriculum Development
Educational Media
Information Technology
Learning
Science Education
Simulation Learning Environments
Last Modified: 1/16/07
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