Simulation and Learning: A Model-Centered Approach
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (682 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1461419530 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-21 |
| Language | : | English, Italian |
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Invaluable reference for those researching the interaction of cognition and simulation The author has a well deserved reputation in the field of training through simulation reflected in the quality of this publication. This author brings together many strands of research into the simulation paradigm in an interesting and thoughtful way, offering many views on not only the different methodologies that simulation can adopt, he also examines the diverse ways that the human cognitive process actually deploys simulation as an internal process. The book also investigates many differing simulation cons. A masterpiece If future historians were to write a book about the most important contributions of technology to improving science education, it would be hard for them to skip computer modeling and simulation. Much of our intelligence as humans originates from our ability to run mental simulations or thought experiments in our mind to decide whether it would be a good idea to do something or not to do something. We are able to do this because we have already acquired some basic ideas or mental models that can be applied to n. "A must-have reference for anyone designing training simulations." according to Amazon Customer. The fields of instructional design and of modeling and simulation both have a great deal of literature. However, there is little written about how these fields overlap. Landriscina does an excellent job of bringing these disciplines together, and doing so from a science-of-learning perspective. Of particular interest are his descriptions about learners not only developing mental models as a result of simulation-based training, but then helping learners execute those models as a mental simulation. The text is f
A conceptual model called the “epistemic simulation cycle” is proposed as a blueprint for the comprehension of the cognitive activities involved in simulation-based learning and for instructional design.. From the Back CoverThis book conveys the incredible instructional potential of simulation as a modality of education and provides guidelines for the design of effective simulation-based learning environments. The framework of the book consists of model-centered learning---learning that requires a restructuring of individual mental models utilized by both students and teachers.Simulation models extend our biological capacity to carry out simulative reasoning. Recent approac
The framework adopted to do this is model-centered learning, in which simulation is seen as particularly effective when learning requires a restructuring of the individual mental models of the students, as in conceptual change. Mental models are by themeselves simulations, and thus simulation models can extend our biological capacity to carry out simulative reasoning. The main idea of this book is that to comprehend the instructional potential of simulation and to design effective simulation-based learning environments, one has to consider both what happens inside the computer and inside the students' minds. For this reason, recent approaches in cognitive science like embodied cognition and the extended mind hypothesis are also considered in the book A conceptual model called the “epistemic simulation cycle” is proposed as a blueprint for the comprehension of the cognitive activies involved in simulation-based lear