Electronic Learning articles from April 1994

Electronic Learning archives from April 1994

Compton's patent under reexamination: multimedia. (controversial patent award to Compton's New Media could make teachers patent violators)
April 1, 1994... MULTIMEDIA Teachers could discover they are patent violators if a controversial patent award to Compton's New Media holds. The patent, considered by many publishers as having a crucial effect on the future of multimedia, is currently...

District or site: who makes technology decisions? (it depends on the technology) (on-line debate) (Real Time Online) (Column)
April 1, 1994... David and Alan agree that it depends on the technology EL The topic is site-based management and district technology planning. The question: Are these two "movements," for lack of a better word, incompatible? David: John Naisbitt in...

Pay a$ you go: we need a paradigm shift in how we budget for technology. (guest editorial)
April 1, 1994... We need a paradigm shift in how we budget for technology YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE READING this magazine if you didn't believe in the potential of technology to change teaching and learning in our schools. And, if you're like most of your...

Site-based tools: technology that supports good school management. (The Planning Principal) (Column)
April 1, 1994... SITE-BASED MANAGEMENT IS THE educational bandwagon of the 90s, but the wagon is mired in the mud. Individual schools should have the authority and flexibility to make decisions in order to achieve accountable results. Unfortunately,...

Math, science, & more: math and science become truly interdisciplinary as students use technology to apply what they learn. (Special Report: Science and Math)
April 1, 1994... Math and science become truly interdisciplinary as students use technology to apply what they learn ONLY IN SCHOOL IS THE WORLD BROKEN DOWN INTO artificial packages called science and math, measured doses of learning in discrete subject...

Equity: has technology bridged the gap? (the technology gap is an educational and societal issue) (includes related articles on Project PULSE, rural schools, gender equity in technology and teacher preparation)
April 1, 1994... We're all too aware of the inequities in our education system. The chasm that exists between the haves and have-nots is evident every day in the eyes of students who know its realities better than anyone else. Whether inequity is associated...

Science in the public domain: non-commercial science software that's good and cheap. (Buyers Guide)
April 1, 1994... Non-commercial science software that's good and cheap PUBLIC DOMAIN, FREEWARE, SHAREWARE--THERE ARE hundreds, perhaps thousands, of software programs available to computer users at little or no cost. There's just one catch: You have to...

Lights, action, math!: putting the NCTM standards on screen. (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) (evaluations of Lola May's Fundamental Math, The Graph Club, and Hands-On Math: Vols. 1,2, and 3) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
April 1, 1994... TEACHERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ARE SEARCHING for technologies that will help them integrate the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' new standards into their classrooms. The broad-based math reform fueled by the NCTM standards...

A bicycle for the mind, redux. (interview with Alan Kay, inventor of the Macintosh interface) (The EL Interview) (Interview)
April 1, 1994... The inventor of the Macintosh interface says that real learning is not particularly user-friendly and computers should not be sold like cars EL Looking back to your days at Xerox PARC, and from from your current vantage point at Apple,...