ABSTRACT

No matter how promising the possible applications of computer modelling to education might be, they will have no effect on schools and colleges if modelling is not used in real classrooms. In this section of the book we turn to look at approaches to curriculum development that suggest ways of integrating modelling into the curriculum. The following chapters describe three projects which explicitly set out to bring about curriculum change. These projects have used very different approaches to trying to bring modelling into the curriculum, and I want to briefly overview and contrast those approaches here.