This was from "Virtual Lab" of the Gazette by P.R. Guruprasad. He talks about how children have fallen in love with the computer. So it's good that our systems have incorporated it into the curriculum. This article spoke about science labs. It mentioned how some schools were not able to have a science lab. The one that had them may not have had adequate materials needed to do any lab experiments. This is where the school uses the computer to simulate an actual lab experiment so that the students are able to experience this much needed lesson.
http://www.teachers.net/gazette/SEP08/guruprasad
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See www.smartscience.net/slideshow/ for a discussion of how virtual labs should really work. Simulations take the science out of science.
Not all virtual labs are simulations. Some hands-on labs actually are simulations.
Students learning science should work with data from the material world, not the simulated world of make-believe.
You can have low cost virtual labs without sacrificing the science to simulated, fake experiments.
I know that. The one I looked at was one where the children actually did the experiment first, then they did on the computer. May be I was not clear in my description.
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