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标题：Expanding Opportunities for Systems Thinking, Conceptual Learning, and Participation through Embodied and Computational Modeling
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作者：Ashlyn E. Pierson ; Corey E. Brady
期刊名称：Systems
电子版ISSN：2079-8954
出版年度：2020
卷号：8
期号：4
页码：48-78
DOI：10.3390/systems8040048
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Previous research has established that embodied modeling (role-playing agents in a system) can support learning about complexity. Separately, research has demonstrated that increasing the multimodal resources available to students can support sensemaking, particularly for students classified as English Learners. This study bridges these two bodies of research to consider how embodied models can strengthen an interconnected system of multimodal models created by a classroom. We explore how iteratively refining embodied modeling activities strengthened connections to other models, real-world phenomena, and multimodal representations. Through design-based research in a sixth grade classroom studying ecosystems, we refined embodied modeling activities initially conceived as supports for computational thinking and modeling. Across three iterative cycles, we illustrate how the conceptual and epistemic relationship between the computational and embodied model shifted, and we analyze how these shifts shaped opportunities for learning and participation by: (1) recognizing each student’s perspectives as critical for making sense of the model, (2) encouraging students to question and modify the “code” for the model, and (3) leveraging multimodal resources, including graphs, gestures, and student-generated language, for meaning-making. Through these shifts, the embodied model became a full-fledged component of the classroom’s model system and created more equitable opportunities for learning and participation.
关键词：science education; scientific modeling; computational modeling; embodied modeling; multimodality; English learners science education ; scientific modeling ; computational modeling ; embodied modeling ; multimodality ; English learners