Relative advantage chart
Biology Problem |
Technologies |
Relative
Advantage |
Expected Outcome |
1. Learning, studying, and remembering a vast assortment of difficult
vocabulary worlds. |
Online flash
cards and science vocabulary games such as eduplace.com and quizlet.com |
Students will be
able to engage in learning vocabulary faster, more enjoyably, and from a
variety of locations using internet-connected devices. |
Students will be
more successful at learning and remembering scientific vocabulary. |
2. Understanding complex experiments without having access to the
materials required for reenactment. |
Online interactive experiments
available at sites like explorelearning.com |
Students can engage in a hands-on
scientific experiments without having physical access to the materials
necessary for carrying out the experiment in reality. |
Students will broaden their
understanding of scientific experimentation and inquiry by experiencing a
larger variety of simulations and labs.
|
3. Creating lab reports that are more interactive and media-rich than
traditional written reports. |
Online
presentation creation sites such as prezi.com and voicethread.com |
Students can
create media-rich presentations that include photos and videos of an
experiment as well as personal narrations. |
Students will
gain a better understanding of the process of experimentation and learn how
their peers complete similar experiments. |
4. Staying on top of
current events and scientific advancements. |
RSS feeds, online news sites which
filter by topic or subject area, and apps like pulse which collect news
stories from specific fields. |
Students can be informed of up to
the minute scientific developments, experiments, and news. |
Students will better understand the
events, experiments and publications that regularly occur within the
scientific community. |
5. Necessity to replicate scientific experiments multiple times to
achieve reliable results. |
Online
interactive experiments available at sites like explorelearning.com |
Students can collect
data from multiple repetitions of the same experiment and thus increase the
reliability and validity of their own experiment. |
Students will
begin to understand the necessity of repeating trials to achieve accurate
scientific results. |
6. Difficulty of breeding species over multiple generations for
experiments in genetics and inheritance |
Online genetic simulations available
on sites such as biologycorner.com and www2.edc.org |
Students can breed a variety of species
through hundreds of generations and easily collect and organize genetic data
for further analysis. |
Students will better understand how
different types of genetic traits are passed down through generations. |
7. Trouble understanding the concept of peer review without ever having
experience in the area. |
Online discussion
boards like moodle and blackboard provide a place
for students to analyze and discuss each other's work. |
Students can
evaluate and discuss each other's work outside of the classroom, working with
students from other classes and schools. |
Students will
come to understand how the process of peer review works in conjunction with
the scientific method. |
8. Many topics in biology center around materials too small for even
microscopes to be of use (DNA, genetics, etc.) |
Online interactive experiments which
use 3-dimensional models of molecules and microscopic organisms available at
sites like explorelearning.com |
Students can examine and explore a
huge assortment of molecules and interactions that would otherwise be
invisible under the microscope. |
Students will gain a more thorough
understanding of the interactions that take place between biological molecules. |
9. Difficulty understanding how the process of evolutions occurs over
thousands or millions of generations. |
Online evolution
simulations available at sites like nhm.ac.uk and pbs.org/wbgh/evolution. |
Students can observe
the slow changes that occur within a species over thousands of
generations. |
Students will
better understand how the forces of time, environment, and competition
gradually effect the evolution of species. |
10. Necessity of experiencing a variety of ecosystems to fully
understand how organisms interact within an environment. |
Online games which explore
interactions between organisms and their environment available on sites like learner.org
and gamesforchange.org |
Students can explore how organisms
interact in a variety of ecosystems without the necessity of being in the
field. |
Students will learn what effects the
interactions of organisms have on a variety of global ecosystems. |
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