Computer-Aided Environmental Education can...

• encourage fundamentally different forms of interactions among students and between students and teachers
  
• engage students systematically in higher-order cognitive tasks
  
• facilitate student-centered learning by allowing choice in the pathways and rate of information
  
• motivate student interaction, experimentation, and cooperative learning
  
• address a variety of learning styles and modalities
  
• provide a rich variety of instructional approaches
  
• involve both learners and experts
  
• facilitate "storylines" or thematic learning
  
• prompt teachers to question old assumptions about teaching and learning
  
• allow teachers to be a guide at students side as well as the sage on the stage
  
• provide easy access to current local and global environmental data
  
• incorporate educational technologies
  

Using Computers in Environmental Education: Handouts and Overheads for Teacher Workshops