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Computer Simulations as Effective Learning Scenarios
Inquiry learning with computer simulations facilitates the education process through experimentation and scientific reasoning. With simulations, students change variables and observe effects in order to form conclusions. Through this process students discover principles, rules, and characteristics of scientific phenomena. So say researchers from the University of Twente, NL, in new guidelines for teachers that provide practical recommendations for improved deployment ICT in secondary schools.Read more...
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Computer Supported Inquiry Learning
Source: CHECKpoint eLearning
Fireworks in Student Learning by Michael J. Canino
The best education is self-motivated self-education. That occurs when a student is motivated to the point that she works to learn all she can on a particular subject. Technology can be the catalyst in motivating just that type of student learning. Adobe Fireworks CS3, for example, can be the spark that motivates students to better learning.
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Adobe Fireworks CS3
Source: TechLEARNING
Cultural Exchange: LMS Bonds Texas Students with Denmark
By Linda L. Briggs
In an example of bridging vast cultural divides through technology, students from a conservative Catholic high school in Texas are learning from college students in Denmark, and vice versa, through a Blackboard-based exchange launched last year.The program was implemented to strengthen cultural, communication, technology, and language skills among students at Denmark's Roskilde Handelsskole, a student from Texas' Brownwood Senior High, and students at The Oratory Academy in tiny Pharr, Texas. Students collaborated and learned from each other through relatively low-tech asynchronous, moderated discussion board exchanges.
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Region 4 Educational Service Center
Texas Virtual School
Roskilde Handelsskole
Source: T.H.E. Journal
