Design Practice Of Pre-service Teachers’ Inquiry Learning Activities Under Multi-agent Modeling And Simulation Environment

The rapid development of the current technology makes the real world and the virtual world constantly penetrate and integrate,thus triggering the demand for talents in the new era.Computational thinking is an essential problem-solving skill that meets the changing needs of the new era.Computational thinking is not a unique trait of computer scientists,but a way of thinking that has a profound impact on everyone’s thinking and problem solving.It has become a general trend to develop students’ computational thinking ability in the digital environment.In order to make pre-service teachers better adapt to the changes of The Times and become the talents needed by schools and students,we must also pay attention to the cultivation of computational thinking ability in the process of their education.How to cultivate pre-service teachers’ computational thinking ability is a problem worth our study.Through three rounds of action research,this study discusses the cultivation of inquiry learning activities in the multi-agent modeling and simulation environment.First of all,the literature research method is used to sort out and summarize the literature about computational thinking,multi-subject modeling and simulation,inquiry learning,define the relevant concepts,determine the theoretical basis,and determine the research background and research status through further analysis of the specific research problems;Secondly,in view of the characteristics of unbalanced development of pre-service teachers’ computational thinking ability,interest in Net Logo teaching and lack of practical ability of inquiry learning,the advantages of inquiry learning activities based on multi-agent modeling and simulation environment breaking through time and space constraints,enriching students’ cognition and high learning participation are given full play.The inquiry learning activities are designed under multi-agent modeling and simulation environment for the development of pre-service teachers’ computational thinking ability.Finally,48 pre-service teachers in a normal university were taken as practice objects to carry out three rounds of inquiry learning activities practice in the multi-agent modeling and simulation environment.In each round of inquiry learning interaction practice,the implementation of inquiry learning activities in the multi-agent modeling and simulation environment was understood through analyzing the inquiry learning task list of pre-service teachers,classroom observation,student interview and other ways.Reflect on teaching practice,put forward improvement measures according to problems,and constantly improve inquiry learning activities;And verify the effectiveness of the inquiry learning activity proposed in the multi-agent modeling and simulation environment in the development of pre-service teachers’ computational thinking ability.This study combines multi-agent modeling and simulation with inquiry learning,and rigorously designs the inquiry learning activities under the multi-agent modeling and simulation environment,which is a teaching practice exploration for the development of pre-service teachers’ computational thinking ability.At the same time,the elements of computational thinking were evaluated in a specific situation,and the situational test combined with cognitive network analysis was used as the evaluation tool of computational thinking,which proved the effectiveness of inquiry learning activities in the multi-agent modeling and simulation environment.It provides a new idea for training pre-service teachers’ computational thinking and a valuable reference for teachers’ teaching practice.