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Lotero, Luis Alejandro Andrade – ProQuest LLC, 2018
My dissertation explores how elicited gestures can support 6th grade students' understanding of nonlinear dynamics of complex systems. My hypothesis is that elicited gestures make these patterns salient to the student, who learns about these quantitative dynamics via embodied mechanisms. To elicit these gestures, I designed a computer simulation…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Nonverbal Communication, Systems Approach, Middle School Students
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Mirna Isabel Rivera García – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
This study proposes a local theory called "Inside-Outside" to strengthen a deprived school microsystem. The theory aims to reduce the cycle of ignorance in schools with poor infrastructure facilities, large groups of students, located in high-crime areas, children from low-income families with low levels of schooling, and families unable…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Disadvantaged Schools, Crime, Community Characteristics