%0 Journal Article
%T Computational models in physics teaching: a framework
%A Ives Solano Araujo
%A Eliane Angela Veit
%A Marco Antonio Moreira
%J Investiga£¿£¿es em Ensino de Ci¨ºncias
%D 2012
%I Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
%X The purpose of the present paper is to present a theoretical framework to promote and assist meaningful physics learning through computational models. Our proposal is based on the use of a tool, the AVM diagram, to design educational activities involving modeling and computer simulations. The idea is to provide a starting point for the construction and implementation of didactical approaches grounded in a coherent epistemological view about scientific modeling.
%K scientific modeling
%K computer simulations
%K computational modeling
%K physics education
%U http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID295/v17_n2_a2012.pdf