Conference proceeding
Drawing Upon Computational Experiences to Navigate Ontologies
ISLS Annual Meeting 2023: Building Knowledge and Sustaining our Community - 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2023, Proceedings, pp.926-929
2023
DOI: 10.22318/icls2023.605594
Abstract
STEM students experience challenges when reasoning about complex systems that combine multiple ontologies. Computational environments, however, support students because these environments distinguish between aggregate patterns and individual interactions. This investigation explores students learning about a complex system that combines two ontologies: chemical and electrical potentials in biological cells. We conducted a training-study that involved pre and posttests and a computational environment (NetLogo) to visualize the system. To gain insight into how students learned from the environment, we assessed students’ drawings. We found that computational experiences inspired changes to students’ drawing style and prompted them to draw new physical entities. By incorporating these new entities, students demonstrated one step toward their learning to navigate multiple ontologies in STEM education.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Drawing Upon Computational Experiences to Navigate Ontologies
- Creators
- Xiaoyu Tang - University of Iowa, United StatesMatthew Lira - University of Iowa, United States
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- ISLS Annual Meeting 2023: Building Knowledge and Sustaining our Community - 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2023, Proceedings, pp.926-929
- DOI
- 10.22318/icls2023.605594
- ISSN
- 1573-4552
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2023
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984825534402771
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