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The
Mississippi flow pass St. Louis, founded in 1764 as a French fur-trading
post.
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Cognitive
Research
Five
Dimensions
In our quest for effective use of geographical
visualizations in education, five dimensions resurfaced repeatedly
during our work. They include scale; point of view; 3-dimensionality;
representational type and change-over-time. This was true regardless
of whether we worked with individual students, student pairs or
whole classes. For each dimension, visualization tools offer the
possibility of "going beyond the information given"
(Bruner, 1956). The adaptation of these tools for educational
purposes may result in the "cognitive amplifiers" that
permit us to see what we cannot through direct perception (Pea,
1986; Bruner, 1966).
Scale
Point
of View
3-Dimensionality
Representational Nature and Type
Change Over Time
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