Sickle Cell: Making Science Fun

The Sickle Cell Counselor takes a subject which students typically find boring and brings it alive

See a narrated Quicktime movie of Sickle Cell. (approx.1:58, 5.2 MB)

Testing Sickle Cell

Where am I in the content of the book?

• What demonstrations of ILS software can I see?

• How effective is the Sickle Cell program?

• Why does extrinsic motivation fail?
• What is the natural way that goals direct learning?
• What is goal-directed learning?

• Why do traditional types of biology assignments fail to hold students' interests?

• How can computers improve education?

• How does Sickle Cell provide active learning?
• What is a goal-based scenario?

• What must learning software contain?
• What are the basic principles of designing quality educational software?
• What is natural learning?
• How much software is needed to educate our children?