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Title: | Hybrid Modeling in 6th Grade STEM: Seeds of Convergence Research |
Authors: | Pierson, Ashlyn Brady, Corey Clark, Douglas Sengupta, Pratim |
Keywords: | Learning and Identity |
Issue Date: | Jun-2020 |
Publisher: | International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) |
Citation: | Pierson, A., Brady, C., Clark, D., & Sengupta, P. (2020). Hybrid Modeling in 6th Grade STEM: Seeds of Convergence Research. In Gresalfi, M. and Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Volume 1 (pp. 19-26). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences. |
Abstract: | The NSF has identified a need for convergence research that blends practices and perspectives from different scientific disciplines (NSF, 2019b). Studies of professional science describe convergence research at the frontiers of emerging disciplines (e.g., Chandrasekharan & Nersessian, 2017; Fox Keller, 2003). These fields address problems that demand hybrid representations, which materially integrate multiple models to compose model systems, offering perspectives on large complex systems. We argue that habits-of-mind that support hybridization exist not only in professional labs but also in classrooms; we demonstrate that 6th grade students recognize the need for hybrid model systems to explain complex phenomena. Like researchers, students justify the need for hybrid models in relation to sometimes-conflicting commitments and constraints. In this context, we find that students hybridize models narratively and rhetorically, a resource for convergence thinking and a precursor to material hybridization. |
URI: | https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/icls2020.19 https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/6470 |
Appears in Collections: | ICLS 2020 |
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