In almost all the reform-based documents, models have consistently been recognized as one of the major unifying ideas that transcend disciplinary boundaries and pervade all scientific, mathematical, and technological fields. Hestenes (1987) describes a model as a representation of structure in a physical system.He also states that a model is a substitute object, a conceptual representation of a real thing. A number of science educators suggest that “models of simulations” offer considerable
We are a community of educators from around Europe sharing and exchanging ideas, experiences and visions about games and creativity in learning. Check this page below (scroll down, it's long :). A few words about this space for sharing, commenting, informing: SEARCH COMMUNITY RESOURCES: Here, we will be using the ‘Educational Content’ link to share our initial ideas, which will be updating as they are gradually developing into fuller scenarios. Towards the end of the week, we may formulate them
The Open Science Resources (OSR) community enables you to access the finest digital collections in European science centres and museums, to follow educational pathways connecting objects tagged with semantic metadata and to enrich the contents provided with social tags of your own choice. The OSR community contains educational material in the form of educational content (images of exhibits and scientific instruments, videos, animations, exercises, graphs, links) and of educational pathways
