Paul Stanway Jr
07-13-2005, 07:41 PM
Panama Gets Software to Assess Students
By BILL KACZOR
Associated Press Writer
PENSACOLA, Fla. - A research institute is taking software designed in part to preserve scientists' knowledge and giving it to schools around the world as a tool to help children learn.
The software was designed to literally map out what scientists know in diagram form. The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola is providing the concept mapping software to individual schools as well as training teachers in Panama, the first country adopting Cmaps nationwide.
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By BILL KACZOR
Associated Press Writer
PENSACOLA, Fla. - A research institute is taking software designed in part to preserve scientists' knowledge and giving it to schools around the world as a tool to help children learn.
The software was designed to literally map out what scientists know in diagram form. The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola is providing the concept mapping software to individual schools as well as training teachers in Panama, the first country adopting Cmaps nationwide.
Read more at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050709/ap_on_hi_te/apn_concept_mapping