Technology Evolves to Offer a Clearer View of Science
SCIENTIFIC MODELING: Jeff Piontek is the principal and founder of the Hawaii Technology Academy in Waipahu. The K-12 high-tech charter school uses 3-D modeling and works with experts in the field to help students understand complex scientific concepts.
—Elyse Butler & Matt Mallams of Education Week
Schools incorporate computer simulations, 3-D modeling
With the aid of computer simulations, invisible phenomena like static electricity or molecular reactions turn into easy-to-see processes.
In virtual labs that give high school students remote control of real-world lab equipment, the constraints and artificial simplicity that a 50-minute class period imposes on an experimental design fade away.
And in role-playing challenges, the technology fosters collaboration and critical thinking and relays data, but the crises themselves remain in the...
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