@inproceedings{1c4199b8f6b748f8949c2d4e4ce9dd8b,
title = "Scientific Modeling Practices Through Perspective Taking in a Mixed Reality Embodied Learning Environment",
abstract = "We present a study for first grade students engaging in Science through Technology Enhanced Play (STEP) – a mixed reality embodied learning environment which tracks student movements as they act as honeybees collecting nectar. We attend to how students take up first and third-person perspectives as they work to communicate the location of flowers to their peers through the design of a “waggle dance” and collaboratively make sense of agent behavior in complex systems through embodied modeling. We discuss patterns in students{\textquoteright} perspective-taking and its intersection with iterative modeling practices and report on how facilitating these shifts allows students to be positioned as the designers and subjects of their own models while fostering the synthesis of abstract and concrete ideas.",
keywords = "mixed-reality, modeling, perspective-taking, science education",
author = "Morgan Vickery and Joshua Danish and Xintian Tu and Mengxi Zhou",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} ISLS.; 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021 ; Conference date: 08-06-2021 Through 11-06-2021",
year = "2021",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS",
publisher = "International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)",
pages = "765--768",
editor = "\{de Vries\}, Erica and Yotam Hod and June Ahn",
booktitle = "ISLS Annual Meeting 2021 Reflecting the Past and Embracing the Future - 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021",
address = "United States",
}