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Direct linkLiu, Min; Horton, Lucas; Toprac, Paul; Yuen, Timothy T. – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 2012
This chapter examines the various cognitive tools embedded in a multimedia-enriched PBL environment for middle school science known as "Alien Rescue" and shares the research findings of the use of these cognitive tools in assisting young learners' problem solving. The goal of this chapter is to illustrate strategies for designing…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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This study examined the potential of a hypermedia-based expert tool to scaffold 66 regular education sixth graders engaged in a problem-based learning (PBL) program. Participants completed "Alien Rescue," a hypermedia PBL environment on the solar system. The tool under investigation offered students interactive video of an expert…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Hypermedia, Intermediate Grades
