REAL: Facilitate Thinking in an Object-oriented Way

New Search

Print Abstract

E-mail Abstract

Full Text

Save to My Collections

Export Citation

Bai, X., Saravanos, A. & Black, J. (2005). REAL: Facilitate Thinking in an Object-oriented Way. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 3383-3387). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/20605.

• Share:
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Conference Information

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2005
Montreal, Canada
June 27, 2005
ISBN 1-880094-56-8
  Piet Kommers & Griff Richards
AACE

More Information on EDMEDIA
Table of Contents

Authors

Xin Bai, Antonios Saravanos, John Black, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

Abstract

Our group REAL (REflective Agent Learning environment) attempts to investigate the impact of thinking in an object-oriented way, by developing a novel framework that allows students to model the real world, and thus learn to implicitly represent knowledge in an object-orientated mindset. The present implementation, an agent called REAL-Planet, is developed for the domain of biology, environmental science, ecology and sustainability. This reflective agent is an autonomous cognitive character, like an avatar, that can decide how to behave on its own, according to an object-oriented representation of some knowledge about its world taught to it by students. The use of the term "reflective" gives the agent two layers of meaning: that of reflecting the user's content knowledge back to him/her, and that of reflecting the user's mental model of the domain back to him/her. We hope this encouragement of metacognition (thinking about thinking) would help students improve their thinking and reasoning skills, thus helping them solve the real world problem in a more efficient way.

Keywords

• Students
• Learning Objects

Also Read

• Object-Oriented Thinking for Mental Model Development
• The Missing Ingredient in Online Learning: Improving Learner Performance Through Exposure to Instructor Corrected-Errors in AVBL
• Exploring How Agents-based Modeling and Culture Affects Children’s Understanding of Complex Systems
• The Potential for an Object-Oriented Model of Learning
• Streaming ECDL Courses – Results from a 14 months trial. Report from a Project Using DVB Satellite-based Lecturing.
• Does Your Knowledge Affect My Knowledge? Assessing the Effects of an Online Social Environment on Reading Comprehension
• The Effects of Epistemic Belief and Discussion-Facilitating Strategy on Interaction and Satisfaction in Online Discussion
• Fostering Mental-Model Thinking During Design
• Virtual Reality Simulations in Physics Education
• Using Videos as a Resource for Online and Traditional Mathematics Classes

Tags