Talk:Free Science Education Software





Comment by David Moursund 3/5/2011
computational science is now well established as one of the three main prongs in learning and doing science. We have theoretical, experimental,and computational science.

There are a steadily increasing number of very powerful computational science computer hardware and software tools. Some of these tools have made it into precollege education—for example, microcomputer-based labs, the use of graphing calculators, and the use of simulations in place of some "real" hands-on lab activities.

My guess, however, is that the typical precollege is not yet learning much about the power of computer modeling and simulation in science and technology.