Workshop 1
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Section
A Exploring current practice
Activity
A2 Evaluating current practice |
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Aims
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To evaluate your existing
use of computer simulations
and models.
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To identify particular
areas of existing teaching
that you would like to address.
Background
You may have already
identified aspects of using
computer models and simulations that you think are problematic, and
that
you would like to try to address. This activity may help to clarify
these
and to identify others. 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.
What to do
1. Working as a
group, identify those aspects
of your existing use of computer models and simulations that work well.
2. Now try
to identify as many problems
as you can in using computer models. These may relate to a number of
factors,
for example:
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pupils’ lack of competence
in using computers;
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lack of suitable hardware
or software resources;
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constraints in the nature
of the curriculum that
make it difficult to introduce simulations;
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your own lack of
experience of using computer in
general or computer simulations in particular.
3. From your group’s
list, choose one or two
that you as an individual consider to be the key difficulties.
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