The last couple of weeks, we've been engaged in earthquakes in the classroom and the students tried out several online lab sites to map earthquakes, plot epicenters , determine magnitudes and build structures to withstand earthquakes. The students loved them saying in some cases they were the coolest labs they did or that it was like a game, wasn't it? If one of the 5E's of technology is to engage - I think these labs certainly did that! In terms of educate, I have no doubt of this either. How wonderful that what used to be a multi-day tedious activity (plotting earthquakes) - now can be done quickly and effectively, leaving much more time for the discussion, application and evaluation part of learning.
Pretty cool....
Saturday, March 7, 2009
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