A student began interacting with the sim within 10 seconds and verbalized sense-making without explicit guidance¶
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q2 i? In a case-study interview with no written guidance and only prompts to think aloud, a 6th-grade student began interacting with the sim in less than 10 seconds and verbalized an attempt to explain the skater's motion. → Podolefsky 2013
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Podolefsky 2013¶
Podolefsky, N. S., Moore, E. B., & Perkins, K. K. (2013). Implicit scaffolding in interactive simulations: Design strategies to support multiple educational goals. https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6544 doi:10.48550/arxiv.1306.6544
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Qualitative microanalysis of one think-aloud interview with a 6th-grade student, conducted on the final version of the Energy Skate Park: Basics (ESPB) sim; nine middle-school students were interviewed during the sim's design. The interviewer used only unscripted prompts encouraging the student to think aloud, and gave no instructions about the sim. The student's first interactions were changing tracks and dropping the skater, and she verbalized that motion "transfers" uphill, signaling sense making.
"Notice how quickly the student began interacting – in less than 10 seconds – and trying to make sense of what was happening in the sim."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
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- Authors report that flexibility in sim access supports student agency while students tend to explore in a productive sequence — a broader claim this one bears on
- Contingent scaffolding improves learning more than fixed or absent support. — related
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A student began interacting with the sim within 10 seconds and verbalized sense-making without explicit guidance |
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A student began interacting with the sim within 10 seconds and verbalized sense-making without explicit guidance |
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