Cognitive artifacts, technology and physics learning

Vitor Manuel Neves Duarte Teodoro; Rui Gomes Mendonça Neves

Cognitive artifacts, technology and physics learning

Vitor Manuel Neves Duarte Teodoro, Rui Gomes Mendonça Neves

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Abstract

Certain types of computer software are powerful cognitive artifacts. A cognitive artifact is a tool to enhance cognition, allowing the user to create and explore "concrete-abstract objects" and "worlds from ideas" and check how well these "worlds" can correspond to "real worlds," or make sense of "imagined worlds." Cognitive artifacts can become an essential tool in teaching and learning in physics education, making learning of complex abstract difficult concepts and models more significative and epistemologically grounded.

Original language	Unknown
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning
Editors	Norbert Seel
Place of Publication	Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Pages	572-576
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4419-5503-6
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012

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