Alexander Meets Michotte: A Simulation Tool Based on Pattern Programming and Phenomenology

Autor/in	Basawapatna, Ashok
Titel	Alexander Meets Michotte: A Simulation Tool Based on Pattern Programming and Phenomenology
Quelle	In: Educational Technology & Society, 19 (2016) 1, S.277-291 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1436-4522
Schlagwörter	Phenomenology; Computer Simulation; Thinking Skills; Programming; Science Instruction; Animation; Abstract Reasoning; Teaching Methods; Computation; Pattern Recognition; Grade 7; Animals; Scaffolding (Teaching Technique); Epidemiology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Denkfähigkeit; Programmierung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Mustererkennung; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Epidemiologie
Abstract	Simulation and modeling activities, a key point of computational thinking, are currently not being integrated into the science classroom. This paper describes a new visual programming tool entitled the Simulation Creation Toolkit. The Simulation Creation Toolkit is a high level pattern-based phenomenological approach to bringing rapid simulation creation into the classroom environment. Students create agent-based simulations via analogy between the real world phenomena they are trying to represent and "interacticons," which are visual animations of generic agents enacting the phenomena. This approach obviates the need for students to implement low level and often time-consuming agent behavior programming and yet, requires the use of abstraction, which is a key component of computational thinking. Initial data shows that students in the classroom can implement simulations faster using the Simulation Creation Toolkit as compared to the end-user programming level and begins to show that students can use the Simulation Creation Toolkit to create simulations through analogical reasoning. In this sense, Simulation Creation toolkit provides an initial data point into the integration of Computational Thinking activities through simulation construction in the classroom environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01