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Emergence of Analogies in Collaboratively Conducted Computer Simulations

Emergence of Analogies in Collaboratively Conducted Computer Simulations
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Author(s): Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 22
Source title: Cognitive Effects of Multimedia Learning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Robert Z. Zheng (University of Utah, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-158-2.ch018

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Abstract

To learn by means of analogies, students have to see surface and deep structures in both source and target domains. Educators generally assume that students, presented with images, texts, video, or demonstrations, see what the curriculum designer intends them to see, that is, pick out and integrate information into their existing understanding. However, there is evidence that students do not see what they are supposed to see, which precisely inhibits them to learn what they are supposed to learn. In this extended case study, which exemplifies a successful multimedia application, 3 classroom episodes are used (a) to show how students in an advanced physics course do not see relevant information on the computer monitor; (b) to exemplify teaching strategies designed to allow relevant structures to become salient in students’ perception, allowing them to generate analogies and thereby learn; and (c) to exemplify how a teacher might assist students in bridging from the multimedia context to the real world.

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