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Conference Paper: Pupil's ecological reasoning with help of modeling tool

TitlePupil's ecological reasoning with help of modeling tool
Authors
Nevanpäà, TLaw, N
KeywordsEcological Reasoning
Modelling
Population Dynamics
Simulation
Issue Date2006
Citation
Proceeding Of The 2006 Conference On Interaction Design And Children, Idc '06, 2006, v. 2006, p. 41-44 How to Cite?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1139073.1139088
AbstractEcological concepts, and in particular population dynamics, has been found to be among the most difficult topics in biology. Some researchers pointed to students' relatively weak mathematical background as the main source of learning difficulties. This paper reports on an investigation of pupil's (n= 73) reasoning about the ecological phenomena by using an iconic modelling tool, WorldMaker. The simulations eliminated the need for understanding of mathematical equations, and made the ecological concepts much more accessible to some children. However, many of the pupils reasoned from an anthropocentric perspective that obstructed their ability to predict ecological phenomena which requires systems thinking. Copyright 2006 ACM.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/176105
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dc.description.abstractEcological concepts, and in particular population dynamics, has been found to be among the most difficult topics in biology. Some researchers pointed to students' relatively weak mathematical background as the main source of learning difficulties. This paper reports on an investigation of pupil's (n= 73) reasoning about the ecological phenomena by using an iconic modelling tool, WorldMaker. The simulations eliminated the need for understanding of mathematical equations, and made the ecological concepts much more accessible to some children. However, many of the pupils reasoned from an anthropocentric perspective that obstructed their ability to predict ecological phenomena which requires systems thinking. Copyright 2006 ACM.en_US
dc.languageengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofProceeding of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06en_US
dc.subjectEcological Reasoningen_US
dc.subjectModellingen_US
dc.subjectPopulation Dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectSimulationen_US
dc.titlePupil's ecological reasoning with help of modeling toolen_US
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