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Tools for Exploratory Learning Programme was part of an ESRC National Initiative on Information Technology in Education, focusing on children’s reasoning with computational tools. Task-tool situations were created to look at three kinds of reasoning: quantitative, qualitative and semi-quantitative in the topics of health and diet, shops and profits, and traffic and congestion. Pupils worked in one of two modes of learning in one of the topics. Expressive mode where they create their own models for one of the topics and Exploratory mode where they explore the models of an expert. The paper focused on the results of the semi-quantitative aspect of the work.
Jon Ogborn was co-director with Joan Bliss. The team were: R. Boohan, J. H. Briggs, T. Brosnan, D. Brough, H. Mellar, R. Miller, C. Nash, C. Rodgers, H. Sakonidis.
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Bliss, J. (1994). Modelling, a Means for Expressing Thinking: ESRC Tools for Exploratory Learning Research Programme. In: Vosniadou, S., De Corte, E., Mandl, H. (eds) Technology-Based Learning Environments. NATO ASI Series, vol 137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79149-9_5
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