Mr. Vetro, a Collective Simulation Cyberlearning Infrastructure for Science Education

Andri Ioannidou; Alexander Repenning

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2010 (May 2010)

The comprehension of interdependent complex systems, which is part of state and national standards, is an enormous challenge for learners. In traditional physiology teaching materials, which structure the human body into decoupled subsystems (e.g.,...

Mr. Vetro: A Collective Simulation Framework

Alexander Repenning; Andri Ioannidou

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1612–1619

Growing science apathy at the K-12 education level represents an alarming development with potentially devastating consequences at individual, societal and economic levels. Surprisingly, student apathy is increasing while the general public...

Topics: Social Sciences, Students, Science

Learning and Teaching with Interactive Simulations

John Zola; Andri Ioannidou

Social Education Vol. 64, No. 3 (2000) pp. 142–45

Discusses how the students at New Vista High School in Boulder, Colorado, created simulations and embedded them in web pages. The process has helped them better understand social studies content. Considers examples of student projects, addresses the ...

Mr. Vetro: Assessing a Collective Simulation Framework

Alexander Repenning; Andri Ioannidou; Lisa Luhn; Christof Daetwyler; Nadia Repenning

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 21, No. 4 (October 2010) pp. 515–537

Growing science apathy at the K-12 education level represents an alarming development with potentially devastating consequences at individual, societal and economic levels. Technology has been incorporated in science education without fundamentally...

Topics: Games, Collaboration, Communication, Multimedia, Health, Classrooms, Human Computer Interaction

Computational Thinking Patterns

Andri Ioannidou; Vicki Bennett; Alexander Repenning; Kyu Han Koh; Ashok Basawapatna

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2011 (Oct 05, 2011)

The iDREAMS project aims to reinvent Computer Science education in K-12 schools, by using game design and computational science for motivating and educating students through an approach we call Scalable Game Design, starting at the middle school...

Mr. Vetro: A Collective Simulation for Teaching Health Science

Andri Ioannidou; Alexander Repenning; David Webb; Diane Keyser; Lisa Luhn; Christof Daetwyler

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 5, No. 2 (June 2010) pp. 141–166

Why has technology become prevalent in science education without fundamentally improving test scores or student attitudes? We claim that the core of the problem is "how" technology is being used. Technologies such as simulations are currently not...