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Simon Skrødal | | Position | PhD Candidate | | Telephone | +61 8 8303 7196 | | Email | simon.skrodal@adelaide.edu.au | | Fax | +61 8 8303 3604 | | Building | 10 Pulteney St | | Floor/Room | 8 | | Org. Unit | Education, School of |
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| TOC | Biography/Background [top]Simon was born in the northern part of Norway (almost spot on the arctic circle) in 1978. Having always been interested in computers, he moved to Adelaide (Australia) in 1999 to study them in more detail. A couple of degrees and a few years of full-time work later, Simon is still in Australia - now pursuing a PhD at the University of Adelaide. Education- Senior High School (y 10-12): Fillan/Hitra (Norway), 1994-1997 (maj. Comp.Sci/Biology/English)
- Officer Cadet School, Army Signals: Lillehammer (Norway), 1997-1998
- The Flinders University: Adelaide (Australia), 1999-2002 (BSc, maj. Comp.Sci)
- The Flinders University: Adelaide (Australia), 2003 (Honours, Comp.Sci)
- University of Adelaide: Adelaide (Australia), 2006- (PhD)
Work- Boot Camp Instructor, Army Signals: Lillehammer (Norway), 1998-1999
- The Flinders University: Adelaide (Australia), 2001-2003 (various jobs, inc. teaching/tutoring/computer programming)
- Grøtte Skole: Fannrem (Norway), 2003 (relief teacher, y 3-7)
- Imediat Communications, Adelaide (Australia), 2004-2006 (full time manager tech. development - programming, multimedia, web-development, etc.)
- eggontop.com, Adelaide (Australia), 2006- (web-developer)
- Eynesbury College, 2006-2007 (lecturer IT)
- SACE, 2007- (marker)
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide (Australia), 2006- (lecturing, tutoring, computer programming/scripting, web-development, misc. technologies)
- EduPEx Pty Ltd, 2006- (Director)
| Professional Interests [top]- Teaching and Learning with ICT; Trans-Disciplinarity
- Computer programming/scripting
- Java
- C
- VBA
- GUI development
- Open Source Technology
- Web-development
- Streaming media (Flash Media Server)
- Flash, Actionscript & ColdFusion
- LAMP (Linux|Apache|MySQL|PHP)
- HTML/CSS/XML/XSL
- Databases
- Computer Simulation
- Agent/individual-based social simulations
- Simulating human behaviour
- Open source simulation frameworks
- Mental models/processes
| Thesis Topic and Abstract [top]Topic Title "Virtual Classroom Simulation" [VCS]Abstract 1 When starting their teacher education, prospective teachers have already formed preconceived ideas, or mental models, about teaching and learning based on their own experiences as learners. These mental models are more likely to be influenced and re-shaped by hands-on experience (i.e. practice teaching) rather than theoretical components in the teaching course. However, with a current drought in practice teaching placements, a number of preservice teachers may miss out on this practical experience. The VCS research study aims to identify and reconstruct important attributes from a teaching/learning context (i.e. the classroom) into a virtual environment; a real-time interactive computer simulation training tool. The simulation will be an important instrument in adjusting and complicating preservice teachers’ mental models about pedagogical content knowledge, in particular with regards to the very fundamentals of teacher/student interaction. 1 Skrødal, S. (2003). Virtual Classroom Simulation. PhD Proposal, University of Adelaide. | | Publications [top]SimTecT 2009 Conference Proceedings:
Simulations for Teacher Education: Challenges and Opportunities (2009)
Skrodal, S., Alagumalai SimTecT 2007 Conference Proceedings:
The Virtual Classroom Simulation :: Pre-service teacher training with ABMS (2007)
Skrodal, S., Alagumalai, S., Lawson, M.J. Research Monograph Chapter: Celebrating Excellence in Scholarship
Computer Simulations and Implications for Education and Society (2006)
Skrodal, S., Alagumalai, S., Lawson, M.J., Calder, P.
| Links and Resources [top]- Online Libraries
- Java Simulation Frameworks
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