The best iPhone, iPad, & iPod app for high-quality molecular visualizationMolySym is excited to announce that Ball & Stick – a premium app for iPhone, iPad, or iPod Molecular Visualization – is now available for sale in the Apple App Store. This app will benefit all people interested in molecular modeling, structural biology, biochemistry, and computer-aided drug design.
MolySym is a provider of advanced technology solutions for research, training and education located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company emerged from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a cross-section of talent from the Department of Chemistry, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Computational Systems Biology Initiative, and the Media Laboratory.Chemistry is currently taught through a mix of textbook readings, classroom lectures, and laboratory exercises. This traditional pedagogy leads to some ideas being frequently misinterpreted, which is often the result of students struggling to making sense of abstract concepts. An understanding of the concepts of atom and molecule are fundamental to the learning of chemistry. Any misconceptions and alternative conceptions that students harbor about these concepts will impede further learning.
We learn best by doing, not by reading, or listening to lectures. The more senses that are involved (sound, sight, touch, emotions, etc.), the more powerful the learning experience. The Online Learning System (OLS) will provide teachers with the necessary tools to engage their students in meaningful activities that reach students at multiple levels.
MolySym is offering a professional development course to high school chemistry teachers that will provide a conceptual basis and be contextualized to the content that chemistry teachers actually teach called Computational Chemistry for Chemistry Educators. This online professional development course will deal with the model concept, the strengths and limitations of the theories on which molecular models are based, and ways to use various model types to illustrate chemical bonding and structure.
