Electronic Learning articles from April 1995

Electronic Learning archives from April 1995

Internet-based learning? Mostly students use the Net to socialize.(Research/Center for Children and Technology)(includes brief glossary)
April 1, 1995... In our drive to get schools onto the Information Superhighway, we have made one critical miscalculation: We have assumed that simply providing students with access to the Internet will transform them into astute users of information, and in turn,...

What's new in desktop videoconferencing.
April 1, 1995... Downsizing. Full-sized videoconferencing systems have been inappropriate for classroom-based instruction and far too expensive. Filling the void are desktop videoconferencing (DTV) systems, like the Compression Labs, Inc. (CLI) Cameo Personal...

Student-centered learning: classrooms should work like basketball teams. (technology will facilitate student-centered learning)(Column)
April 1, 1995... The nice thing about fictional accounts of the future is that they avoid having to deal with the pragmatic strategies we need to bring us from where we are to where we want to be in the years ahead. I admit that from the get-go. As an author, I...

Sharing the wealth: a competitive bid process can make best use of limited district funds. (district schools make competing proposals for use of limited funds for computer technologies)(Guest Editorial)(Column)(Editorial)
April 1, 1995... Like most school districts, the Mankato (Minn.) Public Schools' technology needs have far outpaced our technology resources and budgets. So, like the fable of a mother with seven kids and five pairs of shoes, we have had to figure out how to make...

Needles in a haystack: the real have-nots in technology are rural schools.
April 1, 1995... Two years ago, when researcher Mike Sullivan set out to find good examples of rural schools using technology, he located a handful of promising programs--but not much else. In a series of videotapes that he produced for the Southwest Regional...

When image counts: color monitors for the classroom, for around $500. (six 15-inch color monitors) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
April 1, 1995... If you're in the market for a new color monitor, throw those aspirins away--you won't need them--because the current trend in one-model-fits-all products has taken a lot of the headache out of monitor shopping. Because today's K-12 computer...

It's alive! From Xerox PARC, an "intelligent blackboard" with videoconferencing capabilities. (integrating the LiveBoard large-screen display/computer intro classroom instruction)
April 1, 1995... Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, Calif., is the birthplace of such technology innovations as the graphical interface, ethernet, and laser printers. A current PARC project is the LiveBoard, best described as an intelligent blackboard. The LiveBoard was...

Great Explorations: programs that integrate math into real-world problems.(includes related article on the new Math Investigations course in the Computer Curriculum Corp's SuccessMaker curriculum) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 1, 1995... Add two plus two and you still get four, but thanks to some new sophisticated and challenging math programs, getting there is becoming much more fun. Interactive multimedia math software is nudging out older drill programs and impacting on...