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What You Think Is What You Get: Metaphors For The University, E.G. The Land Grant University As A Feedlot, Robert Fuller
What You Think Is What You Get: Metaphors For The University, E.G. The Land Grant University As A Feedlot, Robert Fuller
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All of us have mental images, or models, we use to help us understand our experiences, predict future events, and decide what to do next. Most of us have been trained in an academic discipline that has provided us with a whole range of models and their associated vocabulary. Sometimes it is helpful to take those professional images and words into an area of human behavior for which they may not have been intended and to explore what facets of that behavior they help us see in new ways.
From The Dragon's Lair To The Tacoma Bridge, Robert Fuller
From The Dragon's Lair To The Tacoma Bridge, Robert Fuller
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Malone's suggestion of challenge, curiosity, and fantasy as the key aspects of instrinsic motivation for learning, based on his analyses of computer games, is used as a format for discussing four interactive videodisc lessons for general physics. The idea of challenging learning is expressed in the lessons based on the Physics and Automobile Collisions and Energy Tranformations Featuring the Bicycle videodiscs. Curiosity is especially evoked in the opening ballet scenes in the Studies In Motion videodisc. As part of a fantasy story line, students are asked to solve the puzzle of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in a videodisc lesson …