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A successful educational use of simulations at school and in formative courses requires a careful consideration of the cognitive mechanisms of learning. The most interesting educational simulations are not so much those which want to be a copy of reality, but those which favour in the student a process of internalization of the simulated model and a process of externalization and comparison of one’s mental models. Education based on models represents a new and promising paradigm in the designing and the didactic use of simulations.

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simulation learning mental models cognitive charge

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Landriscina, F. (2009). Simulation and learning: the role of mental models. Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/316