The Role of Debugging in Knowledge Construction

Valente, José Armando

Volume 14 · Number 3 · Pages 287–288

< Previous Paper · Next Paper >

The Role of Debugging in Knowledge Construction

José Armando Valente

Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “Studying Conceptual Change in Classrooms: Using Association Rule Mining to Detect Changes in Students’ Explanations of the Effects of Urban Planning and Social Policy” by Arthur Hjorth & Uri Wilensky. Abstract: Hjorth and Wilensky’s target article describes two important tools for helping students debug their conceptual misconceptions: the NetLogo model, and results from Association Rule Mining. In this commentary, I focus on these tools’ contributions to the debugging process, and the way they allow students to improve their conceptual knowledge.

Citation

Valente J. A. (2019) The role of debugging in knowledge construction. Constructivist Foundations 14(3): 287–288. https://constructivist.info/14/3/287

Export article citation data: Plain Text · BibTex · EndNote · Reference Manager (RIS)

References

Berland M., Baker R. S. & Blikstein P. (2014) Educational data mining and learning analytics: Applications to constructionist research. Technology, Knowledge and Learning 19(1–2): 205–220. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Guo Y., Xing W. & Lee H. (2015) Identifying students’ mechanistic explanations in textual responses to science questions with Association Rule Mining. In: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW). IEEE Computer Society, Washington DC: 264–268. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Imai M. (1986) Kaizen: The key to Japan’s competitive success. McGraw-Hill, New York. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Papert S. (1980) Mindstorms: Children, computers and powerful ideas. Basic Books, New York. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Sussman G. J. (1975) Computer model of skill acquisition. American Elsevier, New York. ▸︎ Google︎ Scholar

Comments: 0

To stay informed about comments to this publication and post comments yourself, please log in first.

LATEST ISSUES

FOLLOW US

Abstract

Citation

References

Comments: 0