Embodied Learning at a Distance: from Sensory-Motor Experience to Constructing and Understanding a Sine Graph

Educational technologies develop quickly. Which functions of face-to-face education can be substituted by technology for distance learning? One of the risks of online education is the lack of embodied interactions. We investigate what embodied interactive technologies might offer for teaching trigonometry when learning at a distance. In a...

Characterizing conceptual understanding during design-based learning: Analyzing students' design talk and drawings using the chemical thinking framework

Design-based learning is considered a powerful way to help students apply and develop understanding of science concepts, but research has shown that the success of this approach is not a given. Examining students' understanding of science concepts in various design-based learning contexts has thus continued to be an important field of research....