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Title: Applying Deweyan Perspective of Inquiry to Teaching Experimentation Using Simulation
We investigated whether and how learning of experimental inquiry can be facilitated with computer simulations. As a theoretical framework, we built upon Dewey’s concept of the continuum of inquiry and identified three types of requisite knowledge that provide support for, and evolve with, experimental inquiry. Preliminary findings from two teachers’ classrooms indicate that teacher framing styles identified in the classroom discourse may be a factor in explaining contrasting student experimentation behaviors.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1621301
PAR ID:
10385475
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Computersupported collaborative learning
ISSN:
1573-4552
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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