Exploring the potential of a handheld participatory simulation and social network application for revealing decision-making processes for information seeking amongst middle school students

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL

Volumn 8, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 807-809

  Yoon, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MAMMALS;

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; HANDHELDS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATIONAL FACTORS; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS; NETWORK APPLICATIONS; PARTICIPATORY SIMULATIONS; RANDOM FACTORS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84858425244     PISSN: 15734552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1599600.1599747     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. Castelfranci, C. (2001). Towards a cognitive memetics: Socio-cognitive mechanisms for memes selection and spreading. Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 5, 1-14.
2. Clyde, L. (2004). Computing in the palm of your hand. Teacher Librarian, 31(3), 42-44.
3. Colella, V. (2000). Participatory simulations: Building collaborative understanding through immersive dynamic modeling. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 9(4), 471-500.
4. Dennett, D. (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea. New York: Simon & Schuster.
5. Ennett, S.T., Bauman, K.E., Hussong, A., Faris, R., Foshee, V.A., and Cai, L. (2006) The peer context of adolescent substance use: Findings from social network analysis. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 16(2), 159-186.
6. Farmer, T.W. & Hollowell, J.H. (1994). Social networks in mainstream classrooms: Social affiliations and behavioral characteristics of students with EBD. Journal of Emotional & Behavioral Disorders, 2(3), 143-163.
7. Frank, K.A. (1999) Organization culture as a complex system: Balance and information in models of influence and selection. Organization Science, 10(3), 253-277.
8. Frank, K.A., Muller, C. & Schiller, K. (2005, August). The social milieus of adolescent society and theirimplications for academic effort. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA.
9. Gil-White, F. J. (2004). Common misunderstandings of memes (and genes): The promise and the limits of the genetic analogy to cultural transmission processes. In S. Hurley and N. Chapter (Eds.). Perspectives onImitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science. Cambridge: MIT Press.
10. Gloor, P., Paasviaara, M., Schoder, D. & Willems, P. (2006, September). Correlating performance with socialnetwork structure through teaching social network analysis. Paper presented at the Proc. Pro-Ve 06, 7th IFIP Conference on Working Enterprises, Helsinki, Finland.
11. Klopfer, E., Yoon, S. & Rivas, L. (2004). Comparative analysis of Palm and wearable computers for Participatory Simulations. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 20, 347-359.
12. Relan, A., Guiton, G., Parker, N. & Wilkerson, L. (2003, April). A hand-held requirement for clinical education: Effectiveness of a systemic educational intervention in altering perception and use of handhelds amongmedical students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
13. Stanovich, K. (2004). The Robot's Rebellion. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
14. Yoon, A. (in press). An evolutionary approach to harnessing complex systems thinking in the science and technology classroom. To appear in the International Journal of Science Education.
15. Zurita, G. & Nussbaum, M. (2004). Computer supported collaborative learning using wirelessly interconnected handheld computers. Computers & Education, 42, 289-314.