--physical activities
structure or unstructured play, they both has effective and useless sides.
For structure play, the advantages of this kind of play have clear learning objectives; there is no safety risk or security concern; and the play method is more likely to be encouraged and adopted by parents, because they think their children can obtain new knowledge from it. The shortcomings of structured play are that learn things in the play process may not be interest to the children; learning efficiency is not stable enough; and children may produce aversion thus decline to play.
And unstructured play is popularity to children interests; study time will be longer compared with structured play; children can develop their creativity and divergent thinking; it is the most appropriate way to learn valuable things; children can study the things that they are interested in. Most importantly, unstructured play can be experienced through daily life and exercises. However, the shortcomings are: play process lurked with some unexpected risks; it is not supported by the parents; children can obtain any knowledge from it; learning effectiveness and goal not clear.
Animation:
Motivate and easy follow.
Physically interactive animation program:
Proved a safe play environment, can supported or not by the parents, children can learn knowledge by themselves in their own way and play in a effective way with clear leaning goal. It avoid unclear learning content, no risk problem, no boring part. The only thing they will get from this animation program is Have Fun and Learn the Right things.
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Tangrams are a great thing to incorporate into the mathematics classroom because they are fun, intersting, and meaningful. Tangrams "help students develop mathematical concepts of fractions, spatial awareness, geometry, area, and perimeter" (Rigdon, D., et al., 2000). Because tangrams involve physical manipulatives as well as virtual manipulatives (for online tangram activities), this caters to a variety of learning styles. Students who may learn better with maniuplitives or through the use of computers will find tangrams to be an experience in mathematics that they might not otherwise have. Tangrams present a new, interesting, hands- on way to deal with topics that most often are or can be quite boring and meaningless.
By using tangram shapes, children learn the relationships between shapes. Additionally, children learn that three basic shapes, the triangle, square, and parallelogram, can fit together to form many other shapes and figures.
When learning a new concept, it is important to interact with multiple representations of the same idea and be able to translate from one to the other. Critics of direct methods say that teaching things “in isolation from how they are applied, diminishes learners’ problem solving and reasoning skills,” (Roblyer, M.D., 2003), therefore through tangrams, children are interacting with mathematical concepts in a new way, which helps to make the learning deeper.
Another reason why tangrams are important and intersting is that "Tangrams have both geometric and artistic features. Children gain geometric insights as they discover and discuss the relationships among the tangram pieces and what they can represent" (Bohning, G., et al.). Children are naturally curious so trying to solve a puzzle involving tangrams is going to provoke their curiousity and therefore be interesting so they will be engaged in what they are doing. Also, tangrams promote growth in learning, for example, when children become experienced buliding things from tangrams, they can be challenged even more by experimenting with double tangrams, etc.
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BY: Deanna Rigdon; Jolyn Raleigh; Shari Goodman
====> Teaching Children Mathematics 6 no5 304-5 Ja 2000
BY: Pat Margerm
====> Teaching Children Mathematics 6 no2 86-90 O 1999
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Advantages:
1 - Gets and generally keeps peoples' interest for the duration of the animation.
2 - Teaches using visual aids, a very strong proven way of learning.
3 - You may think this is funny, but it is serious: It gives animators work and helps them learn some science.
4 - Helps to explain and illustrate more complex concepts.
Disadvantages:
1 - Some people think animations are dumb or for kids and won't pay attention and learn anything.
2 - Costs money over traditional teaching methods and requires specialized resources (animators and writers).
3 - Ineffective teaching/learning tool for complex interelated concepts due to its inherent simplicity.
4 - Can give a false sense of safety as related to science that requires important attention to safety, such as chemistry experiments, electricity and the nuclear fields. Animations are not good for teaching safety in science.
Here are some advantage and disadvantage of the animation in education:
http://home.tiscali.nl/schopmanlanden.nl/Papers/AnimationPaper.html
1.Skill and ability Improvement
2.Interactivity
3.Engagement
4.Flexibility and safety
5.Motivation
etc.
disa:
Some information of real-life learning will be lost in the animation program.
Computer animation programs may function well from a technical point of view, but they are difficult to fit into a curriculum.
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animations have the potential to serve:
Affective function refers to portraying things in a humorous, spectacular, or bizarre
way so that learners will be attracted to pay additional attention on the learning materials and
motivated to learn. Cognitive function refers to the clear presentation of dynamic matters (which might be abstract and difficult) that can allow learners to understand in an easier way.
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Tangrams are a great thing to incorporate into the mathematics classroom because they are fun, intersting, and meaningful. Tangrams "help students develop mathematical concepts of fractions, spatial awareness, geometry, area, and perimeter" (Rigdon, D., et al., 2000). Because tangrams involve physical manipulatives as well as virtual manipulatives (for online tangram activities), this caters to a variety of learning styles. Students who may learn better with maniuplitives or through the use of computers will find tangrams to be an experience in mathematics that they might not otherwise have. Tangrams present a new, interesting, hands- on way to deal with topics that most often are or can be quite boring and meaningless.
By using tangram shapes, children learn the relationships between shapes. Additionally, children learn that three basic shapes, the triangle, square, and parallelogram, can fit together to form many other shapes and figures.
When learning a new concept, it is important to interact with multiple representations of the same idea and be able to translate from one to the other. Critics of direct methods say that teaching things “in isolation from how they are applied, diminishes learners’ problem solving and reasoning skills,” (Roblyer, M.D., 2003), therefore through tangrams, children are interacting with mathematical concepts in a new way, which helps to make the learning deeper.
Another reason why tangrams are important and intersting is that "Tangrams have both geometric and artistic features. Children gain geometric insights as they discover and discuss the relationships among the tangram pieces and what they can represent" (Bohning, G., et al.). Children are naturally curious so trying to solve a puzzle involving tangrams is going to provoke their curiousity and therefore be interesting so they will be engaged in what they are doing. Also, tangrams promote growth in learning, for example, when children become experienced buliding things from tangrams, they can be challenged even more by experimenting with double tangrams, etc.
=====
BY: Deanna Rigdon; Jolyn Raleigh; Shari Goodman
====> Teaching Children Mathematics 6 no5 304-5 Ja 2000
BY: Pat Margerm
====> Teaching Children Mathematics 6 no2 86-90 O 1999
=======\
Advantages:
1 - Gets and generally keeps peoples' interest for the duration of the animation.
2 - Teaches using visual aids, a very strong proven way of learning.
3 - You may think this is funny, but it is serious: It gives animators work and helps them learn some science.
4 - Helps to explain and illustrate more complex concepts.
Disadvantages:
1 - Some people think animations are dumb or for kids and won't pay attention and learn anything.
2 - Costs money over traditional teaching methods and requires specialized resources (animators and writers).
3 - Ineffective teaching/learning tool for complex interelated concepts due to its inherent simplicity.
4 - Can give a false sense of safety as related to science that requires important attention to safety, such as chemistry experiments, electricity and the nuclear fields. Animations are not good for teaching safety in science.
Here are some advantage and disadvantage of the animation in education:
http://home.tiscali.nl/schopmanlanden.nl/Papers/AnimationPaper.html
1.Skill and ability Improvement
2.Interactivity
3.Engagement
4.Flexibility and safety
5.Motivation
etc.
disa:
Some information of real-life learning will be lost in the animation program.
Computer animation programs may function well from a technical point of view, but they are difficult to fit into a curriculum.
=======
animations have the potential to serve:
Affective function refers to portraying things in a humorous, spectacular, or bizarre
way so that learners will be attracted to pay additional attention on the learning materials and
motivated to learn. Cognitive function refers to the clear presentation of dynamic matters (which might be abstract and difficult) that can allow learners to understand in an easier way.
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