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Positive Learning in the Age of Information

A Blessing or a Curse?

  • Between different teaching-and-learning formats and media: Learning with IT

  • The potential of the internet – again.

  • Original, highly innovative work results and exclusive information from international experts

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
  2. Editorial – About a ‚PLATO‘

    • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Gabriel Wittum, Andreas Dengel
    Pages 1-6
  3. Theoretical Fundamentals of Positive Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Higher Education: A Platonic Ideal

      • Howard Gardner
      Pages 9-21
    3. Why We Should Teach the Humanities

      • Stephen M. Kosslyn
      Pages 23-27
    4. Conceptual Fundamentals for a Theoretical and Empirical Framework of Positive Learning

      • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Susanne Schmidt, Dimitri Molerov, Richard J. Shavelson, David Berliner
      Pages 29-50
  4. Learning as an Interplay between Neuronal, Cognitive and Information Structures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
    2. Hand Gestures Alert Auditory Cortices

      • Arne Nagels, Spencer D. Kelly, Tilo Kircher, Benjamin Straube
      Pages 53-66
    3. A Concept for Quantitative Comparison of Mathematical and Natural Language and its possible Effect on Learning

      • Gabriel Wittum, Robert Jabs, Michael Hoffer, Arne Nägel, Walter Bisang, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
      Pages 109-126
    4. Integrating Computational Linguistic Analysis of Multilingual Learning Data and Educational Measurement Approaches to Explore Learning in Higher Education

      • Alexander Mehler, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Wahed Hemati, Dimitri Molerov, Andy Lücking, Susanne Schmidt
      Pages 145-193
  5. Learning as Interaction and Communication Processes in Formal and Informal Learning Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
    2. Media Effects on Positive and Negative Learning

      • Marcus Maurer, Oliver Quiring, Christian Schemer
      Pages 197-208
    3. The Norm of Neutrality in Collaborative Knowledge Construction

      • Aileen Oeberst, Jort de Vreeze, Ulrike Cress
      Pages 209-219
    4. Why Google Can’t Save Us

      • Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone, Sarah McGrew, Teresa Ortega
      Pages 221-228
    5. Approaches to the Study of Negative Learning

      • Daniel Koretz
      Pages 229-234
    6. Positive Learning and Pluriliteracies

      • Oliver Meyer, Margarete Imhof, Do Coyle, Mita Banerjee
      Pages 235-265
    7. Acquisition of Generic Competencies Through Project Simulation in Translation Studies

      • Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Sascha Hofmann, Jean Nitzke
      Pages 267-280

About this book

While information and communication technology has a vast influence on our lives, little is understood about its effects on the way we learn. In the Age of Information, students – consciously or not – are learning in diverse formal and informal environments from a broad variety of sources, with scientific knowledge competing against unfounded assertions, and misinformation and biased data spreading through social and mass media. The Positive Learning in the Age of Information (PLATO) program illustrated by the contributions in this book unites outstanding and highly innovative expertise on the fundamentals of information processing and human learning to investigate a new paradigm of positive learning as a vital, morally and ethically oriented approach, which is of existential importance to maintaining the civilization standards of a modern society in the digital age.




Editors and Affiliations

  • Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftspädagogik, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

  • Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Gabriel Wittum

  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Dengel

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia is Chair of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Wittum is Head of the Goethe Center for Scientific Computing (G-CSC) at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel is Chair of Knowledge-Based Systems at University of Kaiserslautern and Head of the Research Department Smart Data & Knowledge Services at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Positive Learning in the Age of Information

  • Book Subtitle: A Blessing or a Curse?

  • Editors: Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Gabriel Wittum, Andreas Dengel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19567-0

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-19566-3Published: 04 January 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-19567-0Published: 15 December 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 429

  • Number of Illustrations: 57 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Learning & Instruction, Technology and Digital Education, Educational Technology

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