Graduate seminar on Visualization and Modeling in K-14 Education

This course was taught in the spring semester of 2000. This page archives the syllabus, discussions, and student work from this course.

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Details Instructors: Marcia Linn and Eric Baumgartner Time: Tuesdays from 1 to 3 Location: 4529 Tolman Course: EDUC 290C Section 03 (2-3 units) Course Control #23425 Overview Join us as we explore innovative uses of learning technologies with special emphasis on visualization and modeling. We will explore the context, theoretical grounding, and empirical results surrounding the use of advanced visualization and modeling technologies in K-14 education. This seminar is closely related to the Center for Innovative Learning Technologies and we are participating in a joint national seminar on visualization and modeling that involves faculty and students from the University of Georgia, George Mason University, and the University of Michigan, along with several guest faculty from additional sites. Collectively, students and faculty at the four sites will read a common corpus of pioneering articles in the area of visualization and modeling, interact with the primary authors of these works, and have sustained interactions between scholars (core faculty and other guest faculty) and graduate students.

Seminar activities Explore several innovative visualization and modeling environments firsthand. Collaborate in small, cross-institutional groups to synthesize research findings, design principles, and technology issues across multiple examples of visualization and modeling use. Interact with leading researchers in the field, including several guest faculty from Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and other institutions. Showcase your own project and invite class participants to contribute to, comment on, or pilot test your ideas. Contribute to an online archive of information about visualization and modeling research and technology for K-14 education. Carry out a class project supervised by one or more instructors (for additional credit). Links Shared website for the joint seminar, with master list of instructors and guest faculty. An early draft of the Berkeley syllabus and expected coursework is available. (Also check the central schedule maintained at UGA.) A discussion forum for the joint seminar is here (requires login). Questions? Contact Eric Baumgartner.