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SUMMARY:Webinar - An interdisciplinary approach to Understanding and
  Promoting Spatial Learning Processes
DESCRIPTION:Please register for An interdisciplinary approach to Underst
 anding and Promoting Spatial Learning Processes in the Geosc
 iences on April 5\, 2017 2:00 PM EDT at: \n\nhttps://attendee.
 gotowebinar.com/register/1693511071546274819\n\nPresenters: Th
 omas Shipley (Temple University)\, Nicole LaDue (Northern Ill
 inois University)\, and Mike Brudzinski (Miami University of 
 Ohio) \n\nAbstract: An interdisciplinary network of cognitiv
 e psychologists\, education researchers\, and geoscience educa
 tors have come together to identify new spatial learning pri
 nciples by designing teaching tools that can be applied acro
 ss classroom and field courses in the geosciences. Supportin
 g the development of spatial thinking in a science curriculu
 m requires an interdisciplinary effort that combines knowled
 ge of the disciplinary science with education and psychology
  expertise. The network is designed to create a "trading zon
 e" where theory and practice converge so that research on ed
 ucation and cognitive psychology can be influenced by discip
 linary geoscience content\, and vice versa\, to result in new 
 designs for teaching tools and new insights into the working
  of the human mind-brain.\n\nThe network seeks to expand our f
 undamental understanding of the science of learning by chara
 cterizing the different types of spatial reasoning required 
 for the practice of a complex spatial science\, and to develo
 p new supports for spatial learning challenges that have bee
 n barriers for student learning. Tools developed in this pro
 ject are designed to allow students to self-correct conceptu
 al errors in their understanding of scientific concepts. Th
 e practice of the network will be illustrated with two examp
 les of the application of: 1) Spatial feedback\, which is fee
 dback in the form of a spatial error that allows the mind-br
 ain to guide learning\, And 2) Spatial accommodation\, which i
 s the constructing and reconstructing of mental models to ac
 curately incorporate spatial information to improve inaccura
 te mental models from spatial feedback.\n\nGeoscientists are r
 equired to make sense of information using multiple spatial 
 frames of reference. A complex example may be deciphering th
 e sequence of tectonic events from a complex outcrop. Studen
 ts make predictable errors from a simple frame of reference 
 problem\; when asked to predict where the next volcanic crate
 r will form based on plate motion\, students commonly respond
  with an incorrect answer that is opposite of the correct an
 swer. Similarly\, geoscientists must make sense of some compl
 ex spatial patterns by visualizing non-rigid transformations
 . When students are asked to predict the direction and magni
 tude of motion as reported by GPS around an active fault the
 y make systematic errors\, as well.\n\nIn the second installmen
 t of the IRIS webinar series on Geoscience Education Researc
 h\, researchers will present a model and suggestions for deve
 loping an interdisciplinary network\, examples of spatial pro
 blems facing students in your classes\, and suggestions for c
 lassroom practice that can help students overcome spatial ch
 allenges.
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