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Christina M. Gardner
Research InterestsSocial and cognitive influences on middle school children’s learning and understanding of science content. Specific focus on the way learners use resources in the learning environment to build and refine mental models and their usage of these models to reason scientifically. This interest is twofold. First, I’m interested in looking at the ways affordances of activities, resources, and tools coupled with the social interactions and organization of the environment affect or influence learners’ cognitive development and ability to reason scientifically (e.g. formation and usage of mental models and organization, indexing, and processing of information and experiences). Second, I am interested in how learners use these mental models they are building to reason scientifically. I recognize that these issues are two sides of the same coin. One side asks how the social affects the cognitive and the other side asks how the cognitive affects the social. To date, my research has focused on the first interest. I’ve worked on designing the science content, cooking and science activities, and learning environment and software for Kitchen Science Investigators (KSI) to support the learning and reflection on the science behind the cooking. As I move forward, I plan to integrate in work on the second interest into my research. CMGARDNER_CV_3_2008.pdf Last modified 19 October 2009 at 7:34 am by cmgardne |
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