The Heron Network -- Changing the Ways Students Learn Science

Abstract

This article is an exemplification of teaching that encouraged students to pose and solve authentic questions about science and math, to describe the impacts of the academic and social culture in which they live (and learn science), and to use technology both in the design of their science/math investigations and to communicate their findings. Illustrates within is a single case in which a group of teachers radically modified their approaches to teaching science and the significance of these changes in terms of student outcomes. The web sites constructed by these teachers and students is called the Heron Network.