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Sunday, October 29, 2006
Without a lab bench, is it science? - Sam Dillon, The New York Times
When the Internet was just beginning to shake up American education, a chemistry professor photographed thousands of test tubes holding molecular solutions and, working with video game designers, created a simulated laboratory that allowed students to mix chemicals in virtual beakers and watch the reactions. In the years since, that virtual chemistry laboratory - as well as other simulations allowing students to dissect virtual critters or to peer into tidal pools in search of virtual anemone - has become a widely used science teaching tool. But a dispute with potentially far- reaching consequences has flared over how far the Internet can go in displacing the brick-and-mortar laboratory.
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