Workshop 1
 Contents
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Section
F Transformations: contexts, customs and constraints
This is the final section
which looks at the transformations
made by teachers and the factors affecting these. The activities in
this
section focus on the way in which innovations are constrained by the
contexts
within which teachers work and their customary practices.
Even when teachers were
committed to the use
of computer modelling, it might not always have been easy to implement
it because of the particular contexts within which they worked. What
are
the times pressures in the existing curriculum, and do computers save
time
or do they need additional time? How does the distribution of hardware
in a school or department influence the ways in which computer
modelling
can be integrated into the curriculum? How does computer modelling
change
the role of the teacher? How do teachers’ understanding and experience
with computer modelling affect the way that they use it?
The activity in this
section is:
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