Electronic Learning articles from January 1990

Electronic Learning archives from January 1990

Educators, take hold of the future. (instructional technology)
January 1, 1990... Into the next millennium, rapid advances in information technology will be the most important trend shaping education. Emerging devices that synthesize computers and telecommunications are transforming the skills required for success at work....

School, businesses get publishing help while minority students learn a skill.
January 1, 1990... Teachers at Bell High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Bell, Calif., hand students tests that don't look like typical tests. Pages sport bold type, interesting fonts, even graphics. What's even more unusual: those very tests are produced by...

Program uses laptops to teach homebound students.
January 1, 1990... Homebound students in towns just north of New York City can still take courses offered at their local schools-with the help of laptop computers. New York State law requires school districts to educate homebound students with a daily...

Results of cognition research could help improve educational software. (developing better student thinking)
January 1, 1990... American psychology went through a period in the 1940s and 1950s where it was dominated by people like Clark Hull, who developed elaborate theories of motivational learning, and B.F. Skinner, who argued that the emphasis should be on behavior....

Visions of the future: education and technology in the 1990s and beyond. (includes related article on National Foundation for the Improvement of Education initiative to explore the potential of technology)
January 1, 1990... Joan of Arc heard voices. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream. The educators you are about to meet on the next seven pages have visions. Visions reflective of current conditions in U.S. schools and indicative of the directions education and...

CD-ROM: a technology that is steadily entering school libraries and classrooms. (buyers guide)
January 1, 1990... Compact Disc Read Only Memory's (CD-ROM) entry into society has been referred to as the silent revolution. Businesses and educational institutions have been quietly, but steadily, embracing this technology. General Motors and Ford use CDROM to...

The Explorer: simple, expandable, and affordable. (HeadStart Technologies Co Explorer microcomputer) (evaluation)
January 1, 1990... HeadStart Explorer HeadStart Technologies Co. 40 Cutter Mill Rd., Suite 438 Great Neck, N.Y. 11021 (516) 4824255 $989, includes CPU, CGA monitor, mouse, four software disks, and documentation; CPU alone, $599; options: Automagic 40MB...

Social studies: simulations, data bases, and more for classroom teaching. (software packages) (buyers guide)
January 1, 1990... Social studies is an integrated discipline covering geography, history, economics, sociology, and other areas. In reviewing social studies software, therefore, it is necessary for teachers to judge a software program's merit not only in the way...

Utilities that make DOS easy, even for beginning users. (Better Software Technology's Switch-it, Lassen Software's Program Manager Plus, PC Dynamics' Menu Works) (evaluation)
January 1, 1990... Are your beginning computer-users at sea locating their C prompts? Does your office staff get lost in its DOS directories? This month's column highlights three programs which can help reduce some of the tedium and confusion new users often...

Amiga VIVA: powerful, cost-efficient multimedia. (MichTron's VIVA software package) (evaluation)
January 1, 1990... Everyone in education is talking about multimedia because we've all discovered its great potential for creative productivity. And for the most part, everyone is doing something that qualifies as multimedia. Students are expressing themselves...

High-quality CAD software at a low price. (Claris CAD, Generic CADD Level 1 software packages) (evaluation)
January 1, 1990... When most people think of CAD (computer aided design), two words usually come to mind: expensive and complicated. And they used to be right. Fortunately, the graphical interface that has made the Macintosh a leading computer in desktop...

Judah Schwartz's visionary mathematics programs. (includes related article on Judah Schwartz) (evaluation)
January 1, 1990... Judah Schwartz-perhaps best known as a codeveloper of The Geometric Supposer software series-has a vision that has remained clear and consistent in his development of mathematics programs. He is committed to the belief that students need to...

New teaching, new learning. (multimedia technology)
January 1, 1990... Elementary school children in the Leydon public schools in western Massachusetts use computer graphics and desktop publishing to publish student-written books. Middle school students at Newburgh Middle School in Louisville, Ky., use...

Q & A with Fred D'Ignazio. (President of Multimedia Classrooms consultants) (interview)
January 1, 1990... Editor's Note: Fred D'Ignazio, president of Multimedia Classrooms, answers teachers' questions about the cost, accessibility, and educational benefits of multimedia in today's classroom. Q:I'm interested in incorporating multimedia into my...