The role of communication in learning to model / edited by Paul Brna ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brna, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in education.

Education--Simulation methods.

Education.

Models and modelmaking.

Physical Description:

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Summary:

This book is much more education driven than expected. I thought it was more likely to be at modelling/HCI end, I I think I need to work on an ABI blurb with this in mind. Lots of contributors were dropped which may be why it came out with this emphasis.

Contents:

Part I Coordinating Representations

1 Coordinating Mathematical With Biological Multiplication: Conceptual Learning as the Development of Heterogeneous Reasoning Systems / Keith Stenning, James G. Greeno, Rogers Hall, Melissa Sommerfeld, Muffie Wiebe 3

2 Modeling in Teaching and Learning Elementary Physics / Jacques Vince, Andree Tiberghien 49

3 Conceptualizing and Constructing Linked Models: Creating Coherence in Complex Knowledge Systems / John R. Frederiksen, Barbara Y. White 69

Part II Provoking More Effective Modeling

4 Construction and Abstraction: Contrasting Methods of Supporting Model Building in Learning Science / Rosemary Luckin, Benedict du Boulay 99

5 Cognitive Support in Computerized Science Problem Solving: Eliciting External Representation and Improving Search Strategies / Zvia Fund 127

6 Interactive Model-Building Environments / Anders Bouwer, Vania Bessa Machado, Bert Bredeweg 155

7 Enhancing Reflective Modeling Through Communicative Interaction in Learning Environments / Susan Bull, Vania Dimitrova, Paul Brna 183

Part III Collaboration and Language

8 Modeling the Modelers: Communicating About Content Through Shared External Representations / Paul Brna, Mark Burton 215

9 Teachers' Explanations of Students' Collaborative Modeling Activities / Kristine Lund 241

10 The "Power" of Text Production Activity in Collaborative Modeling: Nine Recommendations to Make a Computer-Supported Situation Work / Denis Alamargot, Jerry Andriessen 275

11 Argumentative Interactions, Discursive Operations, and Learning to Model in Science / Michael Baker 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

2001053242

0805840648

OCLC:

47927767