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Science teaching and learning needs a makeover. It needs to move from seeing learning Science as learning only about the history of Science to include learning about Science for the present and future. It needs to move from seeing the teaching of Science as something that happens within four walls, to a wall-less environment that harnesses collective intelligence. And while the issue raised in the quotation below, is probably fair, it still fails to recognise that formal Science teaching and learning environments need to do more with technology than have only teachers who integrate it, in some form, into their existing Science classroom activity.
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Rodrigues, S. (2012). A Classroom Without Walls. In: France, B., Compton, V. (eds) Bringing Communities Together. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-791-2_4
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