Related readings for microworlds

A Computer Microworld to Introduce Students to Probability

• Type of resource: Article (hard copy)
• Source: Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1994, Volume 13, Number 2, pg. 197-222 Authors: Zhonghong Jiang, and Walter D. Potter
• Description: The article describes the use of a simulation-oriented microworld named CHANCE to help middle and high school students learn introductory probability. It includes subenvironments where students can flip coins, roll dice, and perform other activities to conduct large numbers of trials on the objects.

Making Reading More Difficult: A Degraded Text Microworld for Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies

• Type of resource: Article (hard copy)
• Source: Cognition and Instruction, 1991, Volume 8, Number 2, pg. 181-206 Authors: Frances Rauenbusch and Carl Bereiter
• Description: The microworld described in this article was designed to provide opportunities for focused learning of reading comprehension strategies. Students were presented with texts in which every third letter was blanked out. Significant transfer was found for a group of students who were taught specific meaning-based strategies for decoding the text.

A Microworld Approach to the Formalization of Musical Knowledge

• Type of resource: Article (hard copy)
• Source: Computer and the Humanities, 1993, Vol 27, pg. 41-47
  Author: Henkjan Honing
• Description: This paper is about the importance of applying artificial intelligence techniques, such as microworlds, in music cognition and computer music research.

Cognitive Play and Mathematical Learning in Computer Microworlds

• Type of resource: Article (hard copy)
• Source: Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1994, Vol 8, No 2, pg. 117-131. Authors: Leslie P. Steffe and Heide G. Wiegel
• Description: This article describes how microworlds were used to transform children's spontaneous play activities into mathematical play. In a microworld called "Toys," for example, the students moved geometric figures from a toy box to a playground, and then with a teacher's help, began using different schemes for counting the toys.

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