Teaching Thermochemistry with ICT to Students and Inservice Teachers

Rania El Bilani (1) , Jean-François Le Maréchal (1)

1 ICAR - Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations

The aim of this work is to describe the content and the use of a new simulator that concerns teaching thermochemistry at the upper secondary level. This work has also explored the influence of the background of learners when using such a simulator. It is expected that information for inservice teacher training to use ICT can be derived form this work. The innovative simulation using ICT to teach thermochemistry that is described in this paper allowed students involving the concepts which are the aim of teaching. This can be interpreted as a validation of the innovation. Training inservice teachers with the same tasks as students do not reduce them to students' activity. Their higher backgrounds were involved in the task in scientifically demanding questions, more often than in preliminary, simple, or technical questions. The explanations that we may give to these teachers, during their training, can be done directly on the screen, but these teachers have also to be taught that their students need a different working practice. Students seemed to need to have less work on the screen and more on paper, specifically for the concept that are not explicitly represented by the simulation.

Mots clés: chemical education; energy; ICT

Domaines: Education

Rania El Bilani, Jean-François Le Maréchal. Teaching Thermochemistry with ICT to Students and Inservice Teachers. 2007. ⟨hal-00375071⟩