This review illuminates more advantages for ICT in nurse training than previously. The key advantage of flexibility is supported, though with little evidence for effect on depth of learning.
The study reported here is part of a wider study, which aims to investigate the potential of the graphical calculator for mediating the development of students' abilities to visualise the graphs of functions at GCE Advanced level. This paper focuses on how the graphical calculator influenced six particular students' work with functions. Initial results have illuminated ways in which the technology can have a positive impact on students' visualisation capabilities. It is proposed that visual thinking forms a signzjicant part of many students' mathematical reasoning, enabling students to derive richer meaning from given problems. It is suggested further that use of the technology mediates the development of students' visual capacities, by helping to highlight the links between complementary modes of representation.
This paper considers the role of school programming using the BOXER environment. It gives details of a two‐year research project in which a group of primary school children (aged 9 ‐ 11) developed their understanding of number through programming in BOXER. It argues that such programming should be regarded as a new form of literacy and as such, developed in concert with subject knowledge, and evaluated over the whole of schooling.
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