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Computer and learning - Coggle Diagram
Computer and learning
Technolgy for learning
Simulation
A computer program that imitates something
You can change the way a simulation works and they are interactive
This makes simulation a very usefool tool for learning
Simulations can be used to...
Simulate dangerous experiments without being at risk of injury
Explore things that aren't possible to experience in real life
Some advantages of using simulations
They can be done anywhere
Experiments can be done many times
They speed up processes that take a long time
You don't have to set up complicated and expensive equipment
They can be used in situations where a real experiment is difficult to do
Virtual reality
A computer-generated simulation of a real-life or imaginary environments
The viewer can move around the environment
The viewer wears a VR headshet that gives you the feeling that you are in a different place
Virtual reality can be used to...
you can step inside the place
Assist.
A speech generator turns text that you type into speech
Translate on screen text into braille
helps people with disabilities to learn
Using computer for discovery
Space discoveries
Eagle has landed
On July 20, 1969 Apollo Lunar Module called Eagle made the first landing on the moon.
One of the reasons the Apollo missions were safe and successful was the Apollo Guidance Computer
The AGC was built specially to guide spacecraftto the moon and back
Life on Mars?
January 2004, two robots explorers called Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars
The robots explorers were designed to study the rocks on Mars
Thy discovered that ancient Mars had water and hot springs that could have supportes simple microscopic life
Explorers had:
two video cameras acting as eyes
a flexible robot arm to examine rocks
a hammer to break rocks open
instruments to analyse rocks
a microscope to look closely at rocks
Predicting natural disasters
Weather forecasting
Predicts bad weather
Early warnings
How weather events form
Earthquakes
Seismologists use sensors to detect movement in earth
Medical discoveries
DNA
DNA research involves millions of caluculations on large amount of data
Has only been possible using computers
Computers models and medicine
to predictthe effect that new treatments will have on patients
To develop new new drugs and other treatments
To make discoveries and predict events
Animal and human testing
Drugs are usally tested on animals before humans
Doctors would like to develop more computer models so that thay can test drugs using computers