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I read an interesting article published in the Journal of Chemical Education entitled “How Multimedia-Based Learning and Molecular Visualization Change the Landscape of Chemical Education Research” by Loretta L. Jones.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed4001206?prevSearch=how%2Bpeople%2Blearn&searchHistoryKey=

Prof. Jones describes her journey, starting in 1979, through the technological advances in chemistry classrooms. She discusses the various educational research she and colleagues have explored over the last 3 decades, including ethnography, experimental and observational methods.

What I found most intriguing was the huge gap they discovered between chemistry visualization tools and student learning. In the early 2000s, cognitive psychologists were studying and reporting on how learners interact with visualization aids. However, the graphic designers and chemists/scientists developing these chemistry visualization tools were not taking the cognitive psychologists’ findings into account.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Prof. Jones and Neil Stillings (a cognitive psychologist) spearheaded a movement which brought together the two disciplines to collaboratively develop new chemistry visualization programs that wed the best of both worlds. Prof. Jones concluded the article with what I believe is a great quote by Stan Smith, “It’s not the technology, it’s the pedagogy.”


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