Interactive virtual simulation as potentially meaningful material for learning natural selection.
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Meaningful learning, Information and Communications Technologys, EvolutionAbstract
The research was developed with 40 high school students, using simulation software known as PhET, available free of charge on the internet, which simulates population dynamics, genetic and environmental factors in successive generations of rabbits. The students received a script to carry out the simulation, then answered open questions on the topic of natural selection. Based on the responses, a content analysis was carried out as proposed by Bardin and inferences and interpretations were made in accordance with Ausubel's theory of meaningful learning. The answers were grouped into two categories: genetics and ecology. It was noticed that the execution of the natural selection simulation allowed superordinate learning in which the potentially significant concept (in this case, the concept of natural selection) is more general and inclusive than the concepts already established in the cognitive structure, such as the concepts of genetics and ecology that had been previously studied. The use of information and communication technologies, in this case specifically the use of interactive virtual simulation addressing natural selection, proved to be an important strategy to assist the learning process. The factors involved in the simulation allowed students to make combinations with concepts already present in their cognitive structure, promoting significant learning in the majority of students analyzed.
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