The Cognitive Technology Conference CT99 is being held in San Francisco in August 1999. The conference attendees represent a wide range of disciplines. The Cognitive Technology Society members have diverse interests but their common ground is that they are interested in the effect of computers on humans.
Simulations can be a powerful education tool.
You will find hundreds if not thousands of examples of the use of simulation in education on the Internet. A few examples follow. I reported last year on lab simulations . Some space simulations from Houston Schools and Rice University . You can see that simulations offer a lot to education.