José Cravino

TL;DR: The results show that the total gains were higher when students used the computer simulation, alone or together with “hands-on” activities, but it is found that thetotal gains obtained depend on the teachers pedagogy when using theComputer simulation to teach the concepts of weight and mass.

TL;DR: The multimodal narrative (MN), which describes what happens during a task and incorporates data such as examples of students’ work, photos, diagrams, etc, is developed, which provides a way to gather, organize and transform data, avoiding confusing and time-consuming manipulation of data, while minimizing the natural subjectivity of the narrator.

TL;DR: It was found that the features most likely to contribute to improve students’ learning are related to the balance between support and autonomy given to students during the use of the computer simulation.

TL;DR: The SimProgramming teaching approach immerses learners in a business-like learning environment, where students develop a problem-based learning activity with a specific set of tasks, one of which is filling weekly individual forms.

TL;DR: In this paper, a carefully planed curriculum, which must clearly inter-relate the desired learning outcomes with contextualized real-world tasks, and aligned with the students' assessment, is proposed to stimulate a healthy social learning environment where students develop real work and overcome natural difficulties in order to construct their knowledge and develop the intended competences and abilities.