virtual spring collaborative microworld project full details
Champion:
Trevor Collins
Senior Research Fellow
Participant(s):Peter Whalley, Tom Vincent and Ben Hawkridge
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Virtual Spring Collaborative Microworld
Networked virtual science
A demonstrator project to show how a real teaching problem could be tackled with networked Virtual Science. The aim was to create an environment in which the procedural aspects of the transformation of observation to data, and data to symbolic representation, could be brought out clearly. The shared microworld allows children to collaboratively collect data, make predictions and plot graphs. For older children, the graphs developed may then become a virtual spring balance for 'unknown' masses.
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Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., van der Wal, R. and Siddharthan, A. (2022). Consensus building in on-line citizen science. In: 25th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2022), 08-22 Nov 2022, Online. https://oro.open.ac.uk/83971/.
