在过去的十年中,苹果公司发起并资助了“明日苹果教室”(ACOT)的研究项目,探索技术和教育之间的关系。ACOT的经验验对我们来说是非常有价值的。ACOT使我们与全美国的学生、教育家、研究人员进行了广泛的合作。我们希望ACOT的研究成果能改变人们对技术和教育的传统观点。例如,我们谈学习,而不是谈计算机;我们描述了当学生把技术作为工具建立他们自己的知识时发生了什么,我们也检验了这对发展各种技巧的影响; In the past decade, Apple has initiated and funded the “Apple Classrooms of the Future” (ACOT) research project to explore the relationship between technology and education. The experience of ACOT is very valuable to us. ACOT has enabled us to work extensively with students, educators, and researchers across the United States. We hope that ACOT’s research results will change people’s traditional views on technology and education. For example, we talk about learning instead of talking about computers. We describe what happens when students use technology as a tool to build their own knowledge. We also examine the impact of this on the development of various techniques.