Using Technology to Promote Experiential and Reflective Cognition

我们如何利用技术的力量促进数学和科学领域有意义的学习？PFSMETE研究项目包括验证丰富的体验环境和反思性互动都是有效教育技术的必要条件的假设。为了促进体验认知，学生应该接触到现实的和不同的经验，以确保他们有能力使用他们所学到的知识来理解新的和生态有效的情况。为了通过反思促进积极的学习，学生应该在课堂上被引入新概念时进行反思，例如，通过教学代理或自我评价。拟议的研究旨在测试两个不同领域（科学和数学）的主要假设，针对两种不同的学生群体（小学生和大学生），主要的依赖指标是学生为解决分歧性问题而产生的可接受解决方案的数量。

How we can use the power of technology to promote meaningful learning in math and science? PFSMETE research project consists of testing the hypothesis that rich experiential environments and reflective interactions are both necessary conditions for effective educational technology. To promote experiential cognition, students should be exposed to realistic and varied experiences in order to ensure the ability to use what they have learned to understand new and ecologically valid situations. To promote active learning through reflection, students should be asked to reflect as new concepts are being introduced in the lesson with the help, for example, of a pedagogical agent or by self-evaluation.The proposed studies set out to test the main hypothesis in two different domains (science and math), for two different student populations (elementary and college students), and with the primary dependent measure being the number of acceptable solutions that students generate for divergent problem-solving questions.