HR: 08:00h
AN: ED11A-01    [Abstracts]
TI: On-Line Resources for Teaching Geoscience with Visualization
AU: * Hall, M
EM: hall@scieds.com
AF: Science Education Solutions, 4200 W. Jemez Rd, Suite 301, Los Alamos, NM 87544
AU: Manduca, C A
EM: cmanduca@carleton.edu
AF: Carleton College, 1 N College Street, Northfield, MN 55057
AU: Mogk, D W
EM: mogk@montana.edu
AF: Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717
AU: Slotta, J
EM: slotta@tels.berkeley.edu
AF: University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education, Berkeley, CA 94720
AU: Tversky, B
EM: bt@psych.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, Department of Psychology, Stanford, CA 94305
AU: Crabaugh, J
EM: jpatrick@uwyo.edu
AF: Carleton College, 1 N College Street, Northfield, MN 55057
AB: Understanding the Earth, its processes, and its evolution through time lies at the heart of geoscience. Geoscientists rely heavily on visualizations of changes in the earth in time and space to develop their understanding of Earth systems and processes. Thus visualizations that help researchers and students develop and use their own mental images are an important aspect of geoscience education. In winter 2004, a NAGT "On the Cutting Edge" workshop addressed the question "How do we teach geoscience with visualizations effectively?" The workshop convened geoscientists who are leaders in using visualizations in their teaching, learning scientists who study how we perceive and learn from visualizations, and creators of visualizations and visualization tools. Workshop participants brought expertise in understanding the cognitive processes of learning with visualizations, the classroom experience of teaching geoscience with visualizations, and the knowledge drawn from creating visualizations to convey conceptual ideas and display data. Based on this confluence of expertise, a set of design principles for effective visualizations was created. Participants recommended research directions on how geoscientists use visualizations in their thinking, on student perceptions of standard visualizations, and on the relationships between visualizations and student learning in the geosciences. A particularly interesting line of discussion was the use of student drawing in teaching. A large number of on-line resources to assist faculty in creating and using visualizations resulted from the workshop http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualize04/index.html.. These include 1) a collection of visualizations for teaching organized by topic; 2) design principles for creating effective visualizations; 3) information on tools for creating visualizations; 4) essays, references and websites describing research on learning with visualizations; 5) summaries of workshop discussions.
UR: http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualize04/index.html
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting