[NMScience] FW: New Tools in Science Labs C/M NBS #4187

[Daniel, Maryjo, PED]

FYI-I know many high school teachers are already using probeware; the
article referenced provides some evidence about the benefits of doing
so.

 

Mary Jo Daniel, Ph.D.

Science Specialist

Math and Science Bureau

New Mexico Public Education Department

300 Don Gaspar

Santa Fe, NM  87501

Phone:  (505) 476-1882

Fax:  (505) 827-1784

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NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS COALITIONS     
News Brief #4187  Category: Curriculum Materials 
TITLE: "New Tools in Science Labs"     

In an effort to keep up with the equipment scientists are actually
using, school science labs are adding new resources to the traditional
arsenal of stopwatches, alcohol thermometers, balances, and others.
Thanks to the marketing of high tech companies, schools can now outfit
their labs with tools such as probes, sensors and data loggers, which
are all collectively known as "probeware." According to Carolyn Staudt,
a researcher at the Concord Consortium, a nonprofit educational research
group, "A data collector is a doorway to understanding for students; it
allows them to see real-time data so that can actually remember it." The
Concord Consortium has been studying the use of probeware in schools for
more than six years. Thus far the studies indicate that students who are
in science labs where they have the opportunity to use the probeware may
be learning more science. 

SOURCE: Education Week, 26 March 2008     
WEBSITE: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/03/26/29tech_ep.h27.html
<http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/03/26/29tech_ep.h27.html>  

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