Abstract
A drift towards increased content expressed in texts and tests, driven by the growth of science and a demand for results and measurable progress, has trivialized science education. Three technologies are suggested to address this problem.
This work was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation grants DPE-8317155, MDR-8550373, and MDR-8652120 to TERC, the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education(FIPSE) through the Tools for Scientific Thinking Project at Tufts University, the Board of Regents of Massachusetts, and donations from Apple Computer, Inc. The findings and opinions reported here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views the funding agencies.
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Tinker, R.F., Thornton, R.K. (1992). Constructing Student Knowledge in Science. In: Scanlon, E., O’Shea, T. (eds) New Directions in Educational Technology. NATO ASI Series, vol 96. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77750-9_13
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