We face complex global issues such as climate change that challenge our ability as humans
to manage them. Models have been used as a pivotal science and engineering tool to …

Conversational agents can facilitate learning discussions by applying natural language
understanding to process students' discourse. Agents can assume the roles of figures such …

This study describes a strengths-based blended personalized learning model, the
implementation of the model over a 4-year period, and the results of an impact study focused …

Serious games, board games, and well-designed commercial video games represent
emerging technologies that have been utilized by instructors to help students develop …

Problem-based learning (PBL) designs are addressing the demands and potentials of an
information-saturated era where accessing inquiry resources and new information is …

In the face of the climate crisis, sustainability education must include a focus on
understandings of socio-ecological systems (SES) and applying systems thinking (ST) skills …

This paper explores the affordances of virtual reality (VR) simulations for facilitated model-
based reasoning. Thirty-four undergraduate students engaged with simulated scientific …

Drawing on a critical debate in the social studies of childhood on the empowerment of
children to participate in research, the paper illustrates how ethnographic research in …

Gesture is recognized as part of and integral to cognition. The value of gesture for learning is
contingent on how it gathers meaning against the ground of other relevant resources in the …

One of the keys to science and environmental literacy is systems thinking. Learning how to
think about the interactions between systems, the far-reaching effects of a system, and the …