Abstract

Explores evolutionary changes in students' (n=46) motion-related language mediated by computer-based Newtonian microworlds. Documents how ways of talking emerge and how the convergence of meaning arises from the affordances provided by the interpretive flexibility of the microworld, conversations with the teacher, and the microworld which assures the topical cohesion of student talk. (54 references) (Author/JRH)

Citation

Roth, W.M. (1996). The Co-evolution of Situated Language and Physics Knowing. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 5(3), 171. Retrieved August 15, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/82273/.

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Keywords

• Classroom Communication
• Computer Uses in Education
• Discourse Analysis
• educational technology
• Foreign Countries
• language
• Mechanics (Physics)
• Motion
• secondary education