Designing drawing activities to support simulation-based learning in quantum mechanics

Ainsworth, Shaaron; Kohnle, Antje; Passante, Gina

Abstract

In recent years, the argument that drawing can play a fundamental role in learning in the STEM disciplines has received much support. One area that is receiving growing attention is whether drawing is of value when students work with multi-representational simulations. In this paper, we report on a design based research (DBR) project to teach intermediate-level undergraduate quantum mechanics (QM) through drawing and simulations. We articulate six distinct pedagogical roles of drawing, principles for task design and success criteria for drawing both prior to and whilst working with the simulations. This approach has been iteratively improved through three annual cycles of implementation in two universities in two different countries. Our findings illustrate a variety of theory-informed reasons to draw to learn in science and consider what scaffolding is required to help students make best use of such an approach.

Citation

Ainsworth, S., Kohnle, A., & Passante, G. (2020, June). Designing drawing activities to support simulation-based learning in quantum mechanics. Presented at Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL, Tenesse

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
• Start Date: Jun 15, 2020
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: Aug 5, 2024
• Print ISSN: 1573-4552
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 1581-1584
• Series Title: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference
• Book Title: International Conference of the Learning Sciences
• ISBN: 1732467277
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2020.1581
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/37310306
• Publisher URL: https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/6371
• External URL: https://repository.isls.org/bitstream/1/6371/1/1581-1584.pdf