Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:3190] Re: Modeling and Simulation
From: Barry Kort (bkort@musenet.org)
Date: Wed 17 Apr 2002 - 01:20:38 MEST
From: Barry Kort <bkort@musenet.org> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:3190] Re: Modeling and Simulation Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:20:38 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Sally,
> Referring to your suggestion:
> <Another good practice is to employ simulations -- especially immersive
> simulations -- wherever the technology affords it. These include
> professionally authored simulations and modeling environments where the
> student crafts some or all of the model, perhaps in collaboration with
> peers or mentors.>
> I would endorse this wholeheartedly.
> However, I wonder...whenever I hear simulations mentioned in the context
> of educational technology, they seem to have become synonymous with
> "professionally authored" and, therefore, 'expensive'. Is that the
> general view?
It's not my view. There are some very good simulations which are
marketed as games, with prices around $50. And there are modeling
environments where the students build their models which are very
inexpensive or even free.
> Without meaning in any way to devalue profesionally authored simulations,
> they just simply might be beyond the price range of some educational
> contexts. In which case, less complex, and less technologically dependent
> simulations could also be creatively designed by teachers ...following
> sound educational practice ....and using low cost technological tools.
I've built low-cost simulation systems out of junk computers with
volunteers. I still run one such system on the Internet.
Barry Kort, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist
Affective Computing
MIT Media Lab
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