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Workshop: Modelling for Learning Tasks – Approaches, Tools and Implications
| Chairs: |
Andreas Harrer, Wouter van Joolingen, Ulrich Hoppe |
| Abstract: | The goal of this workshop is to discuss different facets of computer-based modelling tools and processes supported by these tools. This includes discussion of various types of modeling, representations of models, the role of visualizations and of executable models as well as intelligent support for the modeling process, reporting and documenting the process in single user environments and in collaborative, co-constructive environments.
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| Theme: | The importance of modelling as a cognitive activity was propagated in recent years [3] and resulted in reinforced research and the development of a multitude of computer-based modelling environments, such as WISE, Co-Lab, Belvedere, Modelling Space and Cool Modes to name a few. The use of models for learning can be roughly distinguished between “learning with models” , e.g. in the student using a predefined model for experimentation purposes (these models are mostly executable to facilitate exprimentation), and “learning by modelling” , i.e. the process of creating the model (maybe even in different representations or at different abstraction levels) is the main task of the student in gaining the insight in the phenomenon or the system to be modelled. A special area of research within modelling is collaborative modelling, which has its roots in socio-constructivist approaches, where knowledge is claimed to be socially constructed facilitated by interactions between learners. Especially the collaborative construction of models is a process well suited for these learning theories. The support of collaborative modelling by special modelling tools for discovery learning [2] lead to a fusion of the two concepts of “collaborative modelling tools” and “mind tools / objects to think with” [1] which resulted in the notion “collaborative mind tools”. |
| Expected Outcomes: | The goal of this workshop is to discuss these different facets of computer-based modelling tools and processes supported by these tools. |
List of workshop presenters:
Modelling for Learning Tasks – Approaches, Tools and Implications |
Andreas Harrer, Wouter van Joolingen, Ulrich Hoppe |
Visualization of Synchronous Collaborative Modeling Activities |
Meletis Margaritis, Nikolaos Avouris, Vassilis Komis |
ModellingSpace: Supporting Young Students to be Thoroughly Involved in Modelling and Collaborative Modelling Activities |
Angelique Dimitracopoulou, Vassilis Komis |
Learning with Models and Learning by Modelling: Exploring the Role of Multiple Representations Using Computational Media |
Marcelo Milrad |
An Integrated Approach for Analysis-Based Report Generation |
Lars Bollen, Andreas Harrer, H. Ulrich Hoppe |
Roles of modeling in inquiry learning |
Wouter van Joolingen |