Artificial Intelligence
The collaborative visualization project
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on technology in K–12 education
Interacting with Computers
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
As a powerful technique for the visual representation of complex data, scientific visualization offers the potential to help secondary school science students learn through active inquiry. Over a period of several years, we have been conducting research in the design of scientific visualization environments that support inquiry-based learning. The goal is to support students in a multi-stage learning process that culminates in open-ended research projects. In the early stages, learners should gain familiarity with scientific visualization techniques and the phenomena depicted. In the later stages, students conduct investigations that use scientific visualization techniques to explore open-ended questions. Through the process of conducting inquiry with scientific visualization students can gain an understanding of its usefulness for originating and answering scientific questions.