Leveling the Playing Field: Making Multi-level Evolutionary Processes Accessible through Participatory Simulations
Leveling the Playing Field: Making Multi-level Evolutionary Processes Accessible through Participatory Simulations
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公平竞争环境：通过参与式模拟实现多层次进化过程
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2013
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通讯作者：
U. Wilensky
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Aditi Wagh;U. Wilensky
：学习科学的最新研究引起了人们对让学生通过复杂系统镜头了解科学现象的能力的关注。在这项研究中，我们采用复杂系统的视角，通过使用基于代理的参与式模拟——鸟类饲养员，帮助学生了解多层次的现象——人工选择。我们的目标是调查如何以以下形式对活动进行设计修订：1.) 学生共同经历的明确表示，2.) 获取潜在的第三级等位基因，以及 3.) 透明的互动规则有助于抽象人口水平随时间变化的趋势。我们利用基于主体的进化建模课程的两次迭代的数据，作为中西部三个十年级生物课程基于设计的研究的一部分。这些发现对一般参与式模拟的设计具有影响，特别是支持对复杂多层次现象进行有意义的学习的方法。
: Recent research in Learning Sciences has drawn attention to the affordances of enabling students to learn about scientific phenomena through a complex systems lens. In this study, we adopt a complex systems perspective in helping students learn about a multi-level phenomenon, artificial selection, by using an agent-based participatory simulation – Bird Breeder. Our goal is to investigate how design revisions to the activity in the form of 1.) Explicit representations of students’ shared experiences, 2.) Access to an underlying third level of alleles, and 3.) Transparent rules of interaction facilitated abstraction of population-level trends in terms of change over time. We draw on data from two iterations of an agent-based modeling curriculum for evolution as part of a design-based research study in three tenth grade biology classes in the mid-west. The findings hold implications for the design of participatory simulations in general, and ways to support meaningful learning about complex multi-level phenomena in particular.