It supports and develops the use of the technology to raise educational standards. Responsible for the development of the National Grid for Learning, BECTa also encourages schools and colleges to become effective and critical purchasers and users of ICT by supporting and disseminating good practice quality in educational technology.
Parameters can be varied and the resulting graphs superimposed.
These are just two amongst many powerful features. These points and many others showing the versatility, simplicity and power of WSS will be demonstrated using examples drawn from the WSS Science Collections. A current view of what types of Internet connections schools actually have, and how they are using them, followed by some reflections on the implications of the patterns of connection and use for Science teaching. It has been around ten years since using computer sensors gained credibility as a requirement of the UK science curriculum. The equipment has improved in this time - making the use of today's hardware and software in the classroom a credible aim too.