ROLE: Contexual Cues, Associative Memory and Learning of Physics

在现实世界的学习情境中，各种各样的上下文线索与逐渐形成的常识相关联。相比之下，学校学习往往强调抽象的符号操作，这可能导致学生难以将他们的知识应用到现实世界的例子中。为了帮助学生对物理有直观的认识，有必要解决与学生从经验中获得的常识知识或明或暗相关的感官刺激。要做到这一点，重要的是要了解学习中涉及的上下文线索以及它们如何影响学习过程。对于物理导论中选定的主题，我们将进行系统的定性研究，以识别和调查影响学生学习的特定背景线索；我们将开发方法来测量、评估和表示上下文线索在不同学习阶段的参与；我们还将在虚拟环境中开展物理活动，以实验方式研究触觉反馈等低级感觉线索如何影响学习，以及如何在教学中处理这些线索。由此产生的对情境与学习之间相互作用的见解，以及将情境和感官信息整合到虚拟环境中的见解，将拓宽主动参与教学方法的视野，并为教学技术的发展提供信息。

In real world learning situations, a wide variety of contextual cues become associated with gradually formed common sense knowledge. In contrast, school learning often emphasizes abstract symbolic manipulations, which can lead to students' difficulties in applying their knowledge to real world examples. To help students make intuitive sense of physics, it is necessary to address sensory stimuli that are explicitly or implicitly associated with students' common sense knowledge from experience. To do this, it is important to understand what contextual cues are involved in learning and how they affect the learning process. For selected topics in introductory physics, we will conduct systematic qualitative studies to identify and investigate specific context cues that affect students' learning; we will develop methods to measure, evaluate and represent the involvement of context cues in different stages of learning; we will also develop physics activities in virtual environments to investigate experimentally how low-level sensory cues such as haptic feedback affect learning and how such cues may be addressed in instruction.The resulting insights into the interplay between context and learning, and integration of contextual and sensory information into virtual environments will broaden the horizon of active engagement teaching methods and inform the development of teaching technologies.