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Fun with polymers : development of interactive multimedia and practical polymer science programmesDe Kock, Jacobus Johannes 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Multimedia was the buzzword of the previous decade. Electronic learning is the
buzzword of this decade. Both concepts changed, and are still changing the way
educators present knowledge and information to students, both locally and
worldwide.
South Africa, also standing in the midst of these technological changes, has its own
unique opportunities regarding the teaching environment. Different factors are
currently changing the educational scene in South Africa. With Curriculum 2000 and
the Outcome-Based Education concept (OBE) came the opportunity to choose and
incorporate relevant science and technology programmes into school curriculums.
The introduction of Technology as a subject in junior secondary school, opened the
door to bring students in contact with, for example, the vast world of material
science. Senior secondary students, on the contrary, have little or no exposure to
teaching programmes on modern materials; materials that rule their lives! There is a
need for high quality, easily accessible and informative material science
programmes. This provided the initiative to create this programme.
Depending on the standard of students, "Fun with Polymers" can be used as:
• a lecturing tool for teachers and lecturers
• an encyclopeadia which students can interactively navigate to learn
more about polymer science • a source of information to anyone curious about the interesting world
of plastic materials.
The name "Fun with Polymers" indicates that learning science can be fun
(after ali!). The programme contains easy to use navigation buttons, helpfiles,
hypertext, sound, animations and pictures to teach synthetic polymer
material science. Content consists of the history of the development of
polymer materials, basic polymer chemistry principles, information on the
building of macromolecules, facts on synthetic polymer materials, and some
questions and answers to test the student's knowledge. Practical
experiments, with plastic materials, complement the theoretical information
and provide students with hands-on experience. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Multimedia was die gonswoord van die vorige dekade. Elektroniese leer is die
gonswoord van die nuwe dekade. Beide hierdie konsepte het, en is nog steeds
besig, om die wyse hoe kennis en inligting, plaaslik en wêreldwyd, aan studente
oorgedra word, te verander.
Suid-Afrika, as deel van hierdie tegnologiese veranderinge, bied unieke en
uitdagende geleenthede op die gebied van onderwys. Verskillende faktore
beïnvloed, op die oomblik, die plaaslike onderwys scenario. Die koms van
Kurrikulum 2000 en Uitkomsgebaseerde Onderwys het die deur vir toepaslike
wetenskap- en tegnologie programme, as deel van skoolleerplanne, geopen. Die
toevoeging van Tegnologie, as vakgebied, tot die junior sekondêre fase, skep die
geleentheid om studente in aanraking te bring met, byvoorbeeld, die enorme wêreld
van materiaalkunde. Senior sekondêre studente het egter min tot geen blootstelling
aan materiaalkunde leerprogramme ten spyte van die feit dat hul lewens daagliks
deur moderne materiale beïnvloed en beheer word! Daar bestaan 'n behoefte aan
hoë kwaliteit, maklik bekombare inligting oor moderne materiale en vandaar die
dryfveer om hierdie program te skep.
Afhangende van die standaard van die studente, kan hierdie program gebruik word
as:
• 'n onderrigprogram vir onderwysers en lektore
• 'n bron van inligting wat studente interaktief kan navigeer om meer van
polimeeerchemie te wete te kom
• 'n bron van inligting vir enigiemand wat nuuskierig is oor die
interessante wêreld van plastieke.
Die naam van hierdie program: "Fun with Polymers" dui daarop dat die wetenskapleerproses
pret kan wees! Die program bestaan uit maklik navigeerbare instruksies,
hulplêers, hiperteks, klank, animasies, en foto's om lig te werp op die onderwerp van
plastiek. Die inhoud beslaan die geskiedenis van die ontwikkeling van plastiek=
materiale, basiese polimeerchemie beginsels, inligting oor die vorming van makro=
molekules, feite oor sintetiese polimeermateriale, en vrae en antwoorde om die
gebruiker te toets oor sy/haar kennis. Maklik uitvoerbare en toepaslike praktiese
eksperimente komplimenteer die teoretiese inhoud van die multimedia program.
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