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One of the many ways technology can support higher level thinking is through simulations. Simulations can help make abstract things more concrete, such as numbers and languages. Through the use of games, learners can increase their skills with numbers through games strengthening their ability with basic addition and subtraction, for example. Simulations also are very cost-effective compared to leaving the classroom, and along the same lines are also much safer than taking a class of 30 kids, for example, out of the classroom to a public place for a field trip. There are multiple web sites that provide 3-D tours of certain landmarks, and there is also Google Earth, which can show any spot on earth from a top-down view.