Labs

The real world is made up of science, and how we behave in and manage our environment—from natural resources to rainforests—is critical.

Laboratory activities have long had a distinctive and central role in the science curriculum and many have suggested that many benefits accrue from engaging students in science laboratory activities including the enhancement of students' understanding of concepts in science and its applications, scientific practical skills and problem solving abilities, scientific ‘habits of mind’, understanding of how science and scientists work, interest and motivation.

Computers are often viewed as tools that can be used to achieve diverse educational ends similar to the way textbooks, laboratory equipment, curricula, or other educational technologies can be used to enhance education. This perspective of computers as tools is only partly correct. The limited view of computers as single-purpose and single-user tools often results in computers being treated as just another piece of equipment and not as an integral part of teaching and learning.

Computer competency skills are taught using integration of learned skills in the regular academic curriculum to help students succeed in an ever-increasing technological workplace.