In this personal essay, I explain how my use of visual modelling has the capacity to broaden constructionism in five important ways. (1) It introduces new techniques for students to describe and document, in a personal way, what they are actually doing in modelling. (2) It introduces the big ideas of mathematical modelling and computational thinking in a way that is far more inclusive than many other constructionist-oriented courses that are labelled as math, science or computer science. (3) It favours the modelling of student-selected objects in the physical world over the modelling of concepts and problems drawn more directly from traditional math and science. (4) It introduces the core ideas of design and colour theories in context. (5) It demonstrates the benefits of using narratives and personal journaling to explore the thought processes that help us make sense of the world.

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通过视觉建模拓宽建构主义：作为主体和客体的我的自我

在这篇个人文章中，我解释了我对视觉建模的使用如何在五个重要方面扩大建构主义的能力。(1) 它介绍了新的技术，让学生以个人的方式描述和记录他们在建模中的实际操作。(2) 它以一种比许多其他标记为数学、科学或计算机科学的建构主义课程更具包容性的方式引入了数学建模和计算思维的重要思想。(3) 它有利于对物理世界中学生选择的对象进行建模，而不是对更直接从传统数学和科学中提取的概念和问题进行建模。（4）介绍了上下文中的设计和色彩理论的核心思想。