Electronic Learning articles from March 1994

Electronic Learning archives from March 1994

All included; inclusion of special education children in regular classrooms cannot happen without technology. (includes related articles on how the perfect inclusion should work, glossary, and staff development suggestions)
March 1, 1994... TAKING OF LESSON FROM THE CIVIL Rights movement, special education educators, parents, and advocates are arguing that separate is not equal, and are pushing for a new approach to special needs children--full inclusion into regular classes for...

Realigning your district; instructional management programs match curriculum resources with learning goals. (Buyers Guide)
March 1, 1994... Instructional management programs match curriculum resources with learning goals IN THE 1970s, CURRICULUM SPECIALISTS NEARLY DROWNed in charts, folders, and checklists, trying to manage instruction by objective. In the 1990s, calls for...

Good choice for the classroom; a look at the new Tandy Sensation MPC2. (Tandy Corp.'s Sensation MPC2 microcomputer) (Hardware Review) (Evaluation)
March 1, 1994... A look at the new Tandy Sensation MPC2 TANDY CORP.'S relationship to educaton has gone through a lot of changes lately. In the past, Tandy made and marketed computers especially for schools. Recently it got out of the hardware...

Liberte, egalite, interactivite? (D.C. Heath and Co.'s Discovering French Interactive, Gessler Publishing Co.'s Asterix et son fils: Learn French and Syracuse Language Systems Inc.'s TriplePlay Spanish, multimedia foreign language software) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
March 1, 1994... FOR DECADES, THE PREMIER TECHNOLOGY OF FOREIGN language instruction has been an audiotape and a set of headphones. "Bonjour, Jean. Comment vas-tu?" "Tres bien, merci. Et toi?" Over and over and over again. When computers first...

When a program "fails," how a mid-course correction can overhaul a floundering technology program. (The Planning Principal; includes related article on steps for creating a mid-course correction) (Column)
March 1, 1994... How a mid-course correction can overhaul a floundering technology program A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO ON A VISIT to a Baltimore elementary school, I asked the principal if a technology-based process writing program that the district had...

Can we talk? Watching TV doesn't necessarily affect learning, but talking about it does. (includes related article on resource materials)
March 1, 1994... "Television is at its heart a totalitarian medium. Because television signals originate at a single station and are sent top-down to the masses, tyrants everywhere push TV sets on their people. The former USSR has 306 TV sets for evern 1,000...

How technology savvy should a principal be? (Real Time Online)
March 1, 1994... The most important technology for principals to use is... (well, read on) EL Almost every technologically innovative teacher I've met has said that their principal's support was crucial to their success. Is this your experience as well?...