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The
nature of the innovation
Nowadays, both in education
research and in school
practice, increasing attention is paid to modelling activities, and
there
is wide consensus concerning the educational usefulness of learning how
to interpret and build computer models.
Our choice to study
the transformations science
teachers make of the use of computer modelling reflects both our
acknowledgement
of its great educational potential and our resolve to work towards
removing
some of the obstacles for its incorporation in the secondary curriculum.
In our study of the
use of computer modelling
we focus on the use of spreadsheets in different physics topics.
Spreadsheets
have a number of attributes which make them suitable for use as a
modelling
tool in the school laboratory and thus popular with the science
teachers.
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