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ILDL – Interactive LearningDesign LabHomeStaff EducatorsSchool Partners Projects Prospective Students Resources Curriculum Technology/Simulations News Publications Toggle website search Menu Close HomeStaff EducatorsSchool Partners Projects Prospective Students Resources Curriculum Technology/Simulations News Publications Toggle website search Interactive LearningDesign Lab On May 19, 2011, middle school students participating in the 2011 National Science Olympiad Tournament listen to a demonstration in the Physics Museum inside Chamberlain Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Photo by Bryce Richter / UW-Madison) Interactive Learning and Design Lab Research Overview The central premise of our work is design and implement innovative technology-rich learning environments to scaffold students’ science learning. Our focus is to enable students to see the connections between science ideas, to learn the central ideas and networks of conceptual relationships, rather than a set of discrete facts. Check out our exciting new projects below! News December 2023 – Puntambekar, Gnesdilow, and Yavuz’s paper, Understanding the effect of differences in prior knowledge on middle school students’ collaborative interactions and learning , was published online in the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning . April 2022 – Puntambekar receives the Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award from the School of Education! January 2022 – Our paper, Supporting middle school students’ science talk: A comparison of physical and virtual labs , was chosen for the Research Worth Reading award as one of three papers published in JRST in the past year deemed to have the most significant impact on science educators! October 2021 – Gnesdilow and Puntambekar’s article, Comparing Middle School Students’ Science Explanations During Physical and Virtual Laboratories published online in the Journal of Science Education and Technology – 10-19-21 Puntambekar presents how Distributed Scaffolding can inform Classroom Orchestration at the Cognitive Institute at UC-Boulder- 10-15-21 August 2021 – Puntambekar’s article, Distributed Scaffolding: Scaffolding Students in Classroom Environments published in Education Psychology Review Two new DRK-12 grants! AI Institutes grant ! Info for prospective student s Current Projects SimSnap: Orchestrating Collaborative Learning in Biology through Reconfigurable Simulations SimSnap allows students to join” iPads to create a shared screen to work on simulations in Biology! The goal of this project is to integrate learning across individual, group and whole class levels with innovative uses of technology. Middle school students will solve socio-scientific problems in biology, as they seamlessly collaborate using simulations on iPads. Funded by NSF’s DRK-12 program. Scaffolding Science Learning and Teaching through Automated Wise Crowd Analysis of Students’ Writing Writing evidence-based explanations is key aspect of learning science. This project will support students’ explanations in science through an innovative automated assessment system. The system will provide real-time feedback to students on science explanations. It will also provide teachers with summaries of student’s writing. Funded by NSF’s DRK-12 program. NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming This institute will develop human-AI collaboration models for next generation collaborative learning environments consisting of student and AI agents. The aim of the institute is to advance theoretical frameworks and novel learning architectures for effective orchestration of student teacher interactions with AI learning partners. Funded by NSF AI Institutes program. Follow us on: Facebook Twitter Funding Sources National Science Foundation Institute of Educational Sciences Gates Foundation Next Generation Learning Challenges The Interactive LearningDesign Lab is housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) at the School of Education Feedback, questions or accessibility issues? Contact Us! Contact Us Interactive LearningDesign Lab 1025 West Johnson Street, Rm 667 Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (608) 263 4828 puntambekar@education.wisc.edu ©2020 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System COOKIE NOTICE. We use cookies on this site to enhance your experience and improve our marketing efforts. By continuing to browse without changingwhile you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on . Necessary Necessary Always Enabled Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. 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