Multimedia application with animated cartoons for teaching science in elementary education

Dalacosta, Konstadina; Kamariotaki-Paparrigopoulou, M.; Palyvos, J.A.; Spyrellis, N.

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2008.11.018

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“…Cartoons, also known as graphic stories or comics, appear prominently (Negrete & Lartigue 2004;Williams 2012;McNicol 2014) as they can serve an educational purpose by combining sequential images or pictures to give visual clues to accompanying text (Mayer & Sims 1994;Dalacosta et al 2009;Cohn 2014). The "dual-coding model of multimedia learning", a combination of verbal and visual explanation, has been proposed as a way of improving cognitive processes, especially when the materials are presented in a coordinated way (Mayer & Sims 1994;Mayer 2010).…”

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Cartoon versus traditional self-study handouts for medical students: CARTOON randomized controlled trial

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Objective: The objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of a "cartoon-style" handout with a "traditional-style" handout in a self-study assignment for preclinical medical students. Methods: Third-year medical students (n ¼ 93) at the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, took a pre-learning assessment of their knowledge of intercostal chest drainage. They were then randomly allocated to receive either a "cartoon-style" or a "traditional-style" handout on the same topic. After studying these over a 2-week period, students completed a post-learning assessment and estimated their levels of reading completion. Results: Of the 79 participants completing the post-learning test, those in the cartoon-style group achieved a score 13.8% higher than the traditional-style group (p ¼ 0.018). A higher proportion of students in the cartoon-style group reported reading 75% of the handout content (70.7% versus 42.1%). In post-hoc analyses, students whose cumulative grade point averages (GPA) from previous academic assessments were in the middle and lower range achieved higher scores with the cartoon-style handout than with the traditional one. In the lower-GPA group, the use of a cartoon-style handout was independently associated with a higher score. Conclusions: Students given a cartoon-style handout reported reading more of the material and achieved higher postlearning test scores than students given a traditional handout.

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“…Τα τελευταία χρόνια χρησιμοποιούνται στον τομέα των Φυσικών Επιστημών σε όλες τις βαθμίδες της Εκπαίδευσης (Keogh & Naylor, 1999;Dalacosta et al 2009), καθώς έχουν τη δυνατότητα να θίξουν ένα θέμα ακόμα και επιστημονικό, χωρίς σημασιολογικές ασάφειες, συχνά εγγενείς στον γραπτό λόγο. Κατάλληλα σχεδιασμένα κινούμενα σχέδια παρέχουν αποτελεσματικές ευκαιρίες μάθησης καθώς διευκολύνουν τη διαφοροποίηση επιστημονικών εννοιών, επαναφέρουν αποτελεσματικά προγενέστερη γνώση φοιτητών/ μαθητών και συνολικά προωθούν τη διαδικασία της εννοιολογικής ανάπτυξης.…”

Section: λέξεις-κλειδιά: τρισδιάστατες απεικονίσεις κινούμενα σχέδιαunclassified

Χρήση Κινούμενων Σχεδίων Με Τρισδιάστατες Απεικονίσεις, Για Τη Διδασκαλία Των Εννοιών Των Στερεών Και Των Κρυσταλλικών Δομών Τους, Στην Τριτοβάθμια Εκπαίδευση

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Παυλάτου

2017

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The paper focuses on the presentation and study of the concepts of solids and their respective crystal structures, in the course of General and Inorganic Chemistry in Higher Education. These concepts require students to understand high-level mental processes, as they have the spatial ability and the cognitive skills to make the appropriate connections from microcosm to macrocosm. For this purpose, digital educational material has been developed that incorporates 3d visualizations with possibilities of rotation, magnification, and reduction of structures. Moreover, the combination of interactive cartoons with 3d animations was used to create applications that run both online and locally and that have full capabilities in windows and android as they make it technically easier and more attractive to the user / student to study concepts of high cognitive load. Aimed at the General and Inorganic Chemistry course taught at the National Technical University of Athens, the concepts of solids were chosen with their respective crystal structures, aiming to make students acquainted with certain physical chemical properties through the construction of appropriate educational digital material. Keywords: 3d visualizations, cartoons, chemistry, crystal structures, Higher EducationΠερίληψη Η εργασία εστιάζει στην παρουσίαση και μελέτη των εννοιών των στερεών και των αντίστοιχων κρυσταλλικών δομών τους, στο πλάισιο του μαθήματος της Γενικής και Ανόργανης Χημείας στην Τριτοβάθμια Εκπαίδευση. Οι συγκεκριμένες έννοιες προϋποθέτουν από τους φοιτητές σε επίπεδο κατανόησης υψηλού επιπέδου νοητικές διεργασίες, καθώς διαθέτουν τη χωρική ικανότητα και τις γνωστικές δεξιότητες να κάνουν τις κατάλληλες συνδέσεις μικρόκοσμου με μακρόκοσμο. Γι' αυτό τον σκοπό κατασκευάστηκε ψηφιακό εκπαιδευτικό υλικό που εμπεριέχει τρισδιάστατες απεικονίσεις με δυνατότητες περιστροφής, μεγέθυνσης και σμίκρυνσης δομών. Παράλληλα, χρησιμοποιήθηκε ο συνδυασμός των εκπαιδευτικών διαδραστικών κινουμένων σχεδίων cartoons με τα τρισδιάστατα γραφικά με χρήση ελεγχόμενης κίνησης, για τη δημιουργία εφαρμογών που τρέχουν διαδικτυακά αλλά και τοπικά, http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 09/05/2018 22:28:05 |

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“…Different unconventional formats have been tried to support science teaching in schools, including multimedia applications with animated cartoons (Dalacosta et al, 2009), modelling structures (Cai et al, 2006), personal electronic response systems (Moss & Crowley, 2011) and augmented reality applications (Sommerauer & Mü ller, 2014). In parti-cular, science exhibitions are especially important not only in terms of cultural heritage but also as an informal teaching channel.…”

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“…That was the main idea behind the video spot Crystallography: discover what crystallography can do for you (http://www.iycr2014.org/about/video) and this is, in turn, the basis behind the exhibition: The visitors will be confronted with images that they would never have thought of as crystallography related, thereby introducing a different world to which they were previously oblivious. Different unconventional formats have been tried to support science teaching in schools, including multimedia applications with animated cartoons (Dalacosta et al, 2009), modelling structures (Cai et al, 2006), personal electronic response systems (Moss & Crowley, 2011) and augmented reality applications (Sommerauer & Mü ller, 2014). In parti-cular, science exhibitions are especially important not only in terms of cultural heritage but also as an informal teaching channel.…”

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CRISTALES: a world to discover. An exhibition for schools and universities

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The exhibition CRISTALES: a world to discover is a teaching/outreach activity whose main goals are to increase awareness of the importance of crystallography and its role in everyday life in modern society, motivate young people, and promote education and research in crystallography. CRISTALES is designed to inspire the audience with a careful design and a view of crystallography that places the emphasis not only on the most important contributions of crystallography to society's welfare, including new materials and biomedical research, but also on those aspects of crystallography related to art and the mind. This article describes the simplest version of the exhibition, composed of 14 posters that have been created specifically for schools and universities. Each poster displays an image that is both aesthetically powerful and scientifically intriguing, so as to provoke the curiosity of the students. The posters also contain a brief text explaining the image and its relation to crystallography and a QR code that links the poster to a web page containing further information.

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Multimedia application with animated cartoons for teaching science in elementary education

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Cartoon versus traditional self-study handouts for medical students: CARTOON randomized controlled trial

Cartoon versus traditional self-study handouts for medical students: CARTOON randomized controlled trial

Χρήση Κινούμενων Σχεδίων Με Τρισδιάστατες Απεικονίσεις, Για Τη Διδασκαλία Των Εννοιών Των Στερεών Και Των Κρυσταλλικών Δομών Τους, Στην Τριτοβάθμια Εκπαίδευση

CRISTALES: a world to discover. An exhibition for schools and universities

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