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physics.ed-ph2017
Big Data as a Technology-to-think-with for Scientific Literacy
Geovani Lopes Dias, Renato P. dos Santos
This research aimed to identify indications of scientific literacy resulting from a didactic and investigative interaction with Google Trends Big Data software by first-year studen…
physics.ed-ph2014★ 3 cited
TATI -- A Logo-like interface for microworlds and simulations for physics teaching in Second Life
Renato P. dos Santos
Student difficulties in learning Physics have been thoroughly discussed in the scientific literature. Already in 1980, Papert complained that schools teach Newtonian motion by mani…
physics.ed-ph2014★ 2 cited
Second Life Physics: Virtual, real, or surreal?
Renato P. dos Santos
Science teaching detached itself from reality and became restricted to the classrooms and textbooks with their overreliance on standardized and repetitive exercises, while students…