From the Guest Editors: Fostering intentional learning with technologies

In the rst part of their paper, the authors argue that for intentional learning to occur learners must realize the need to learn and the value in learning, and they do so possibly through everyday problem solving and learning which must encourage regulation and monitoring of learning. [...]Hung (this issue), who builds on Bereiter and Scardamalias (1989) analogy of intentional learning as a problem-solving process, states that during such a systemic inquiry learning process, the learner identies what needs to be learned, the learning gap (problem space), activates his/her prior knowledge and schema, and renes or restructures the conceptual framework. Specically, problem solving as a learning strategy can increase students awareness of the inconsistencies between their naive theories and those that are scientically accepted, and create intentional learning opportunities that arguably avoid the development of confused synthetic models (Vosniadou, 2007a, 2007b). To promote awareness of wanting to learn and of understanding the value of learning, the embedded problem-solving tasks must resemble as closely as possible those found in real world settings and be integrated throughout the whole course of study.