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dc.contributor.author | Blikstein, Paulo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-08T16:18:12Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-08T22:02:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-08T16:18:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-08T22:02:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Blikstein, P. (2012). Re-presenting Complex Scientific Phenomena Using Agent-Based Modeling in Engineering Education. In van Aalst, J., Thompson, K., Jacobson, M. J., & Reimann, P. (Eds.), The Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012) – Volume 1, Full Papers (pp. 387-394). Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/icls2012.1.387 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/2230 | - |
dc.description.abstract | A chronic problem in engineering education is that students' knowledge is superficial, fragmented, and ungenerative. I embark from the conjecture that these shortcomings result from cognitive discontinuity between intuitive forms of sense-making that deal with objects and actions and algebraic formulas traditionally used in this discipline. I propose and that a new form of representation, agent-based models, may offer greater cognitive continuity from sense-making to disciplinary knowledge. Study 1, an analysis of textbook content and lecturer practice, confirmed the cognitive-discontinuity conjecture by implicating the epistemic challenges of converting sense-making into formulas. Study 2 was a longitudinal evaluation of an agent-based, complementary curricular unit for materials science undergraduates. A micro-ethnographic case study of one student's progress through this unit documents the challenges and achievements of appropriating the agent based perspective as means of empowering sense-making. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) | en_US |
dc.title | Re-presenting Complex Scientific Phenomena Using Agent-Based Modeling in Engineering Education | en_US |
dc.type | Full Papers | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | ICLS 2012 |
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