Embodied Learning and Mixed Reality in Physics Experimentation
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2024-08
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Embodied learning is an instructional approach that highlights the significance of the body, movement, and sensory experiences in the learning process. The connection between body and cognition can be particularly crucial in physical learning experiences, such as experimentation. During science experiments, students explore phenomena that often involve bodily experiences. For instance, exploring friction force involves moving objects over various surfaces, manipulating force or mass, and students can feel the effects in their bodies. Therefore, the instructional activities and used technologies should help students to connect embodied experiences with abstract concepts. Mixed reality (MR) technologies offer opportunities to augment bodily learning experiences with virtual representations, for example by making friction forces visible in physics experimentation. This study examines how MR-supported physics experiments can leverage embodied learning mechanisms. Within an MR environment, we investigate how virtually augmented visual cues can help students connect embodied experiences to abstract physics concepts. Participants complete a pretest and then perform physics experiments about friction force. During the physics experiments, they wear an MR headset that provides visual cues fading in the students’ field of view designed to help them make sense of the friction forces they observed. After the learning intervention, participants complete a posttest as well as a delayed posttest assessing the reproduction and transfer of knowledge about friction force and spatial skills. The findings will yield new knowledge about how visual cues and embodied learning mechanisms interact and will suggest principles for designing MR environments for embodied learning in science experimentation.
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EARLI SIG 6&7 Book of Abstracts
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56 - 57
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European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction
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EARLI SIG 6 & SIG 7 Conference
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embodied learning; mixed reality; physics education; representations
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09812 - Rau, Martina / Rau, Martina
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Conference lecture held on August 23, 2024.