Simulations

The three principles that I think are important to education is, Doing and reflecting, seeing interrelationships, and combining multiple identities.

          Doing and reflecting is all aspects of the learning environment are set up to encourage active and critical, not passive, learning. Seeing interrelationships is learning about and coming to appreciate interrelations within and across multiple sign systems (images, words, actions, symbols, artifacts, etc.) as a complex system is core to the learning experience. Combining multiple identities is learning involves taking on and playing with identities in such a a way that the learner has real choices (in developing the virtual identity) and ample opportunity to meditate on the relationship between new identities and old ones. I believe all three of these are very vital to education!

If I were to create a simulation for a class I would have them simulate a model of a house in math. They could model houses made out of hexagons, circle, Triangle and square shapes. A triangle would be for the roof, a square for the home, a rectangle for a door and so on. This is a great way to use shapes to incorporate math and mimic the world around them by using things to build with.

In conclusion I think all the principles can really be beneficial to education! All the principles that Gee has listed are very important principles.