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Computers and learning - Coggle Diagram
Computers and learning
Technology for learning
Virtual reality
Feeling of different place
Walk around the world, explore it
Interactive, like simulated world
Assistive technology
helps people with disabilities to learn
braille converters
translate on-screen text into braille
people with no sight
speech generator
turns text you type into speech
for people with disabilities to speak
screen readers
for people with little or no vision
read out on-screen texts
Simulation
Imitates something you can see or experience
Interactive
Useful tool for learning
Using computer for discovery
Space discovery
Life on Mars?
Two robot explorers landed on Mars
To study the rocks on Mars
Couldn't discover life on Mars
Discovered that acient Mars had water and hot springs
Could have supported microscopic life
January, 2004
Opportunity and Spirit
Eagle has landed
July 20, 1969
Apollo Lunar Module called Eagle
first moon landing
Six Apollo Missions
Apollo Guidance Computer
heavy, slow, difficult to use
guide spacecraft to the moon and back
first computer to guide flights
Predicting natural disasters
weather forecasting
meteorologists
early warnings
people can prepare, or evacuate
supercomputers
earthquakes
parts of the earth move
rocks under the surface break
seismologists
sensors to detect movement on earth
don`t know when
hope supercomputers can predict
Medical discovery
DNA
Understanding DNA led important medical discoveries in the 21st century
Computer models and medicine
Used by meteorologists and seismologists
To make discoveries
Predict events
Used by doctors and medical scientists
Predict effect of new treatments
Develop new drugs and treatements
Help doctors to find out
animal and human testing
Clinical trial
Drugs are used on animals before humans
Then, drugs are tasted in few people to check if they are safe
Dangerous for people involved