Title :
ModellingSpace: supporting young students to be thoroughly involved in modelling and collaborative modelling activities
Author :
Dimitracopoulou, Angelique ; Komis, Vassilis
Author_Institution :
LTEE Lab., Aegean Univ., Greece
fDate :
30 Aug.-1 Sept. 2004
Abstract :
How to really support young students in cognitively demanding modeling & collaborative modeling activities? ModellingSpace environment was designed to deal with this problem. This short paper is focused on its main design principles and features related to modeling primitives, data representations, collaborative activities´ support, metacognitive support for students, as well as to teachers´ support.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; groupware; modelling; teaching; ModellingSpace; collaborative activity support; collaborative modelling; data representations; metacognitive support; modeling primitives; student support; teacher support; Biological system modeling; Chemistry; Collaboration; Communications technology; Laboratories; Mathematics; Physics education; Psychology; Systems biology; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2004. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2181-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2004.1357765
