TY - GEN
T1 - 3D visualization in elementary education astronomy
T2 - 3rd World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2010
AU - Isik-Ercan, Zeynep
AU - Kim, Beomjin
AU - Nowak, Jeffrey
PY - 2010/12/13
Y1 - 2010/12/13
N2 - This research-in-progress hypothesizes that urban second graders can have an early understanding about the shape of Sun, Moon, and Earth, how day and night happens, and how Moon appears to change its shape by using three dimensional stereoscopic vision. The 3D stereoscopic vision system might be an effective way to teach subjects like astronomy that explains relationships among objects in space. Currently, Indiana state standards for science teaching do not suggest the teaching of these astronomical concepts explicitly before fourth grade. Yet, we expect our findings to indicate that students can learn these concepts earlier in their educational lives with the implementation of such technologies. We also project that these technologies could revolutionize when these concepts could be taught to children and expand the ways we think about children's cognitive capacities in understanding scientific concepts.
AB - This research-in-progress hypothesizes that urban second graders can have an early understanding about the shape of Sun, Moon, and Earth, how day and night happens, and how Moon appears to change its shape by using three dimensional stereoscopic vision. The 3D stereoscopic vision system might be an effective way to teach subjects like astronomy that explains relationships among objects in space. Currently, Indiana state standards for science teaching do not suggest the teaching of these astronomical concepts explicitly before fourth grade. Yet, we expect our findings to indicate that students can learn these concepts earlier in their educational lives with the implementation of such technologies. We also project that these technologies could revolutionize when these concepts could be taught to children and expand the ways we think about children's cognitive capacities in understanding scientific concepts.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-16318-0_64
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-16318-0_64
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649862774
SN - 3642163173
SN - 9783642163173
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 500
EP - 505
BT - Knowledge Management, Information Systems, E-Learning, and Sustainability Research - Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2010, Proceedings
Y2 - 22 September 2010 through 24 September 2010
ER -