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Gay, Pamela L.; Price, Aaron; Searle, Travis – Astronomy Education Review, 2007
Communications and mainstream media are entering a new age of on-demand content. As digital video recorders, like TiVo, change how we watch television, podcasts are taking the spoken word in its own on-demand direction. Astronomy podcasts allow listeners to get up-to-date content on a variety of topics ranging from what's in the sky to what's in…
Descriptors: Audiences, Astronomy, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education
Christie, Mary Ann – 1999
The experiences and responses of high school biology students using the GenScope computer program are described. GenScope represents genetic concepts in a linked multilevel fashion to teach students to think like scientists. Many GenScope problems use a fictitious dragon species to illustrate genetics. Students can manipulate the dragons' genes to…
Descriptors: Biology, Computer Software, Genetics, High School Students
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Bork, Alfred; And Others – Science Teacher, 1988
Describes a set of computer-based learning modules designed to teach nonscientists to think and reason like scientists. Discusses the intent of the 10 dialogs in this series. Gives ideas for use in science classes. (CW)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Learning Modules, Microcomputers
Watkins, Beverly T. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
A collection of 17 biology texts and computer software produced at Beloit College (Wisconsin) by an interdisciplinary group let students conduct simulated scientific experiments that would be impossible in a laboratory and complete complex statistical analyses quickly. The programs focus on three stages of scientific research: problem posing,…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Development, College Students, Computer Software