Electronic Learning articles from March 1996

Electronic Learning archives from March 1996

Follow their footprints: new software tool can help track students' research strategies. (Technology Information)
March 1, 1996... It is impossible to overlook the excitement that the Internet is generating or the resulting scramble by educators to connect classrooms and schools. All over the country, schools that are not yet networked are fervently discussing how to do it...

The information navigators: library media specialists can help steer teachers through Internet research. (Technology Information)
March 1, 1996... Pierre, a humanities teacher at my school, recently came into the library and noticed that a student at one of our terminals was downloading information from the World Wide Web. Pierre seemed curious, and I asked him if he had ever seen the Web...

Use your hiring power: how principals can force education schools to address technology. (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1996... One after another, newly minded teachers come to my school, University Terrace Elementary in Baton Rouge, l,a., looking for a job. But as I interview the latest graduates of the colleges of education, seldom do I find that they have the expertise...

This school is a zoo!(the School of Environmental Studies in Minnesota) (Technology Information)(Abstract)
March 1, 1996... On any given day, students from the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley, Minn., 12 miles outside of Minneapolis, might be found diving into Dumpsters, foraging for shrub specimens in the woods, collecting pond-water samples, or...

Practicing authentic science.(includes related article on ScienceWare software) (Technology Information)(Abstract)
March 1, 1996... It all started when three experienced science teachers at Community High School in Ann Arbor, Mich.--Madeline Huebel-Drake, Mike Mouradian, and Liz Stern--got tired of trying to explain to their students why they should learn science....

New teachers: unplugged. (colleges of education need to do a better job of technology training)(includes related articles on training teachers online and Harvard Univ's Graduate School of Education) (Technology Information)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1996... Tina Wallace, who will graduate from Grambling State University's teacher-education program in May, has been on the internet only once, and has little experience with educational software. She'd like to figure out how to make technology a part of...

High-tech brain stretchers: your guide to software programs that develop problem-solving skills. (includes buyers guide table) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 1, 1996... If educational software was once caught in drill-and-practice mode, no more. Responding to educators' call for help in developing students' higher-order skills, a number of software publishers have designed products that challenge kids to think...