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Emphasizing Visual Tools: Using R to Understand Dynamic Models of Biology and Epidemiology
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Dayal, Vikram – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
Epidemiological models have enhanced relevance because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this note, we emphasize visual tools that can be part of a learning module geared to teaching the SIR epidemiological model, suitable for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students in disciplines where the level of prior mathematical knowledge of…
Descriptors: Biology, Visual Aids, Epidemiology, Science Instruction
Active Learning by Visual Programming: Pedagogical Perspectives of Instructivist and Constructivist Code Teachers and Their Implications on Actual Teaching Strategies and Students' Programming Artifacts
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Kesler, Avital; Shamir-Inbal, Tamar; Blau, Ina – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
The integration of visual programming in early formal education has been found to promote computational thinking of students. Teachers' intuitive perspectives about optimal learning processes -- "folk psychology" -- impact their perspectives about teaching "folk pedagogy" and play a significant role in integrating educational…
Descriptors: Programming, Coding, Constructivism (Learning), Intuition