TECHNOLOGY AS A RESOURCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

Catalog description

The course discusses current educational trends that affect science teaching and learning. It analyses science from the perspective of an inherent need for human beings and a field and discipline of knowledge, for which students should develop a scientific thinking process. It emphasizes the instructional trends and research to design learning environments that foster problem solving through strategies of collaboration, information exchange, constructivism and authentic based on a local and global setting.