  The Multi Agent Based programming, modeling and simulation environment of
NetLogo has been used extensively during the last fifteen years for educational
among other purposes. The learning subject, upon interacting with the Users
Interface of NetLogo, can easily study properties of the simulated natural
systems, as well as observe the latters response, when altering their
parameters. In this research, NetLogo was used under the perspective that the
learning subject (student or prospective teacher)interacts with the model in a
deeper way, obtaining the role of an agent. This is not achieved by obliging
the learner to program (write NetLogo code) but by interviewing them, together
with applying the choices that they make on the model. The scheme was carried
out, as part of a broader research, with interviews, and web page like
interface menu selections, in a sample of 17 University students in Athens
(prospective Primary School teachers) and the results were judged as
encouraging. At a further stage, the computers were set as a network, where all
the agents performed together. In this way the learners could watch onscreen
the overall outcome of their choices and actions on the modeled ecosystem. This
seems to open a new, small, area of research in NetLogo educational
applications.
