BeeSim: Remediating Students' Engagement With Honeybees Collecting Nectar From a First- and Third-Person Perspective

• In Event: 58.056 - Augmented Reality and Embodied Learning

Abstract

Two approaches that have been shown to be effective for engaging young students with complex systems concepts are participatory simulations where students explore a system from a first-person perspective by taking on the role of an agent within a system and activities where students can view an entire system from a third-person perspective such as working with a computer simulations of the system. In the current paper we contrast these through an analysis of a study using the BeeSim electronic puppets and BeeSign computer simulation to examine the differences in how each perspective helps students to engage with learning different aspects of a system (honeybees collecting nectar).

Authors

• Joshua Adam Danish, Indiana University

• Kylie A. Peppler, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Naomi Thompson, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Larice Thoroughgood, Indiana University - Bloomington