Joshua Danish » First BeeSign Study http://www.joshuadanish.com Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:45:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Presentation: The Primary Interactive Pathway: An Analytic Tool For Examining and Comparing Students’ Representational Activities.’ http://www.joshuadanish.com/2011/06/15/presentation-the-primary-interactive-pathway-an-analytic-tool-for-examining-and-comparing-students%e2%80%99-representational-activities/ http://www.joshuadanish.com/2011/06/15/presentation-the-primary-interactive-pathway-an-analytic-tool-for-examining-and-comparing-students%e2%80%99-representational-activities/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:30:46 +0000 Joshua http://www.joshuadanish.com/?p=1078 Danish, J. A., & Saleh, A. (2011). The Primary Interactive Pathway: An Analytic Tool For Examining and Comparing Students’ Representational Activities. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society.

]]> http://www.joshuadanish.com/2011/06/15/presentation-the-primary-interactive-pathway-an-analytic-tool-for-examining-and-comparing-students%e2%80%99-representational-activities/feed/ 0 Presentation: ‘The Interactional Role of Kindergarten and First Grade Students’ Representational Practices’ http://www.joshuadanish.com/2011/06/15/presentation-the-interactional-role-of-kindergarten-and-first-grade-students%e2%80%99-representational-practices/ http://www.joshuadanish.com/2011/06/15/presentation-the-interactional-role-of-kindergarten-and-first-grade-students%e2%80%99-representational-practices/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:25:56 +0000 Joshua http://www.joshuadanish.com/?p=1074 Danish, J. A., & Phelps, D. (2011). The Interactional Role of Kindergarten and First Grade Students’ Representational Practices. Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

]]> http://www.joshuadanish.com/2011/06/15/presentation-the-interactional-role-of-kindergarten-and-first-grade-students%e2%80%99-representational-practices/feed/ 0 Paper: Representational Practices By The Numbers: How Kindergarten and First-Grade Students Create, Evaluate, and Modify Their Science Representations http://www.joshuadanish.com/2010/12/14/paper-representational-practices-by-the-numbers-how-kindergarten-and-first-grade-students-create-evaluate-and-modify-their-science-representations/ http://www.joshuadanish.com/2010/12/14/paper-representational-practices-by-the-numbers-how-kindergarten-and-first-grade-students-create-evaluate-and-modify-their-science-representations/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:24:32 +0000 Joshua http://www.joshuadanish.com/?p=1039 Danish, J. A., & Phelps, D. (2010). Representational Practices by The Numbers: How Kindergarten and First-Grade Students Create, Evaluate, and Modify Their Science Representations. International Journal of Science Education.

ABSTRACT: A productive approach to studying the role of representations in supporting students’ learning of science content is to examine their actions from a practice perspective. The current study examines kindergarten and first-grade students’ representational practices across a consistent context—the creation of storyboards—both before and after a curricular intervention in order to highlight those aspects of their practices that changed regardless of a superficially similar task. Analysis of the students’ storyboards reveals considerable improvement in the number of included features after the intervention. Analysis of the students’ practices as they changed over time is also presented by examining the students’ discourse, with a focus on their discussions of the science content and the representations themselves. We demonstrate an increase in accuracy and relevance of the features being discussed, as well as an increase in requesting and providing assessments of students’ representations, particularly between students and their peers.

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ABSTRACT: A productive approach to studying the role of representations in supporting students’ learning of science content is to examine their representational practices. The current study examines kindergarten and first-grade students’ representational practices in a similar context—the creation of storyboards—both before and after a curricular intervention in order to highlight those aspects of their practices that changed while engaging in a superficially similar task. Analysis of the students’ storyboards reveals considerable improvement after the intervention. Analysis of the students’ practices as they changed over time is also presented by examining the students’ interactions, with a focus on their discussions of the science content and the representations themselves.

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BeeSign is a computer simulation designed to help young students observe the behavior of honeybees as they collect nectar and experiment with the result of changing either the behavior of the bees or the environment in which the hive is located. BeeSign was designed to be used on a smartboard with students and a teacher gathered around it to make predictions, observe the bees, and discuss the outcomes.

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Try BeeSign 1.3 | Instructions

BeeSign 1.0 was originally created as part of the BeeSign project for use in the First BeeSign Study. The current version, 1.3, was created for use with Cross-Curriculum Representational Practices Project (CCRP).

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]]> http://www.joshuadanish.com/2009/11/11/beesign/feed/ 0 Presentation: ‘BeeSign: a Design Experiment to Teach Kindergarten and First Grade Students About Honeybees From a Complex Systems Perspective’ http://www.joshuadanish.com/2009/04/18/beesign-a-design-experiment-to-teach-kindergarten-and-first-grade-students-about-honeybees-from-a-complex-systems-perspective/ http://www.joshuadanish.com/2009/04/18/beesign-a-design-experiment-to-teach-kindergarten-and-first-grade-students-about-honeybees-from-a-complex-systems-perspective/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:33:53 +0000 Joshua http://209.151.82.2/~jdanish/?p=12 Danish, J. A. (2009). BeeSign: a Design Experiment to Teach Kindergarten and First Grade Students About Honeybees From a Complex Systems Perspective. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

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This project involved the implementation of a 10 week science curriculum unit for kindergarten and first grade which was designed to:

  1. Examine students’ representational practices, and encourage students to be more reflective as they create representations in science.
  2. Teach students about the process of honeybees collecting nectar from the perspective of complex systems, focussing on concepts such as emergence and interdependence in order to better understand how young students engage with and learn these complicated concepts.

To support these goals, the curriculum included a new form of activity called participatory modeling. Participatory modeling is an activity in which students engage in acting out their current understanding of the content in a way that leverages their ability to communicate well with their peers to help them focus on refining their model of the concepts. In addition, I developed a computer simulation called BeeSign to help students examine and experiment with the simulated behavior of a honeybee hive as it collects nectar.

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