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Levrini, Olivia; Tasquier, Giulia; Branchetti, Laura; Barelli, Eleonora – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
Can science teaching contribute to developing skills for managing uncertainty towards the future and projecting imagination forwards? If so, how? In this paper, we outline an approach to 'teach the future' through science education. In the first part, we describe a framework that has been constructed to orient the design of teaching modules…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Skill Development, Science Education, Climate
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Ferrante, Donatella; Girotto, Vittorio; Straga, Marta; Walsh, Clare – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
Current views of hypothetical thinking implicitly assume that the content of imaginary thoughts about the past and future should be the same. Two experiments show that, given the same experienced facts of reality, future imagination may differ from past reconstruction. When participants failed a task, their counterfactual thoughts focused on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Imagination, Simulation, Time
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers