Workshop 1
 Contents
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Section
A Exploring current practice
Computer modelling and
simulations are beginning
to be used more in science in schools, but their use is not widespread.
Most teachers have used them only occasionally if at all. In this
section,
you will review and evaluate how computer models and simulations are
used
in your existing teaching, and identify particular areas that you would
like to address. In considering how you might introduce new ideas into
the curriculum, it is clearly important to consider what is already
there.
It may be possible
simply to add a new approach
to existing approaches, though it may be, for example, that an existing
approach needs to be modified to allow a new approach to be
incorporated.
Before looking at some ideas about computer modelling that may be new
to
you, it is helpful to look at problems with existing approaches. The
new
ideas may or may not address the problems that you identify, but by
defining
your own agenda, it will help to put the new ideas in perspective.
The activities in
this section are:
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