Electronic Learning articles from April 1989

Electronic Learning archives from April 1989

Technology in Soviet schools: up close and personal. (part one of a two-part series)
April 1, 1989... Technology in Soviet Schools: Up Close and Personal Standing in the slow-moving line at the Kennedy airport ticket counter in New York, I had my first experience of the Soviet hunger for technology. It seemed that all of the Russian...

Texas school board has big plans for technology during next decade.
April 1, 1989... Texas School Board Has Big Plans For Technology During Next Decade The Texas State Board of Education has submitted to the Texas legislature a comprehensive proposal that outlines the state's educational technology needs through the year...

Japan launches national educational computer project.
April 1, 1989... Japan Launches National Educational Computer Project Japan has launched a massive effort to integrate computers into its public education system by the mid-1990s. The landmark program, which includes the design and purchase of nearly two...

Computers and the English class.
April 1, 1989... Computers and the English Class Computers give students new powers and incentives. Although they got a late start in English and language arts settings, computers are now regularly seen as a significant means for acquiring language and for...

Hands-on science projects with help from online networks.
April 1, 1989... Hands-On Science Projects With Help from Online Networks Jeff Holte's students at the Central Middle School in Eden Prairie, Minn., are practicing science instead of studying it these days--and they're using a computer and telecommunications...

Word processing: helps adults revise, and young students simply like it.
April 1, 1989... Word Processing: Helps Adults Revise, And Young Students Simply Like It It has been said that computers help make the writing process easier, and the end result -- a paper of story -- better. Certainly, computers and word processing...

Distance learning: what's holding back this boundless delivery system? (includes a related article on tips for statewide distance learning.)
April 1, 1989... DISTANCE LEARNING The concept of 'distance learning' really is as simple as it sounds: the learner in one location, the source of instruction in another. But concepts fade without practical applications and, as can be expected, the...

Computer viruses: an epidemic real or imagined?
April 1, 1989... Computer Viruses: An Epidemic Real or Imagined? Aflat tire on a rainy day. In-laws visiting for a month. A computer with a virus. Computer viruses are an unpleasant fact of life. And in the past year they have received a lot of...

Ideas for integrating videodisc technology into the curriculum.
April 1, 1989... Ideas for Integrating Videodisc Technology Into the Curriculum Perhaps the most serious challenge to educators in the years ahead will be the task of linking appropriate applications of new information and learning technologies with the...

Geography and collaborative writing programs for students and administrators. (Software Review) (evaluation)
April 1, 1989... Geography and Collaborative Writing Programs for Students and Administrators We have all heard the reports--that some children's knowledge of geography is so abysmal they don't know what state they live in. Reviewed below are two new...

Using life's everyday examples to teach. (Software Review) (evaluation)
April 1, 1989... Using Life's Everyday Examples to Teach One of the current software trends is merging basic curriculum skills with life skills. Thus, children are learning to make change with money, face moral dilemmas, and generally function in the adult...

Statistics for power users. (Software Review) (statistical analysis programs for the Macintosh II) (evaluation)
April 1, 1989... Statistics for Power Users Macintosh statistical processing has come into its own. In the October 1987 issue of Electronic Learning we reviewed MacSpin, a new, dynamic statistical utility whose powerful graphics routines -- like third and...

The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing.
April 1, 1989... THE CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING What kind of education will we offer our children as schools move into the age of technology? How might the increased use of computers in schools reinforce only some ways of thinking and...