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Publication Date: 1983
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Microcomputers and Biology Teaching--An Overview and Some Ideas for Future Development.
Tallon, Bill; And Others
School Science Review, v65 n231 p255-63 Dec 1983
Discusses use of microcomputers for structuring, communicating, and disseminating information under the categories of instructional use (computer-assisted instruction), emancipation (number crunching), revelatory (discovery/simulation), and conjectural (hypothesis testing). Also discusses use of PROLOG language for modeling ecosystems and testing hypotheses about them. Suggested questions for software evaluation are included. (JM)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Programs, Computer Simulation, Discovery Learning, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Hypothesis Testing, Interaction, Microcomputers, Science Education, Secondary School Science, Statistical Analysis
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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