Electronic Learning articles from May 1989

Electronic Learning archives from May 1989

The Soviet Union: enthusiastic, and fearful, about computers.
May 1, 1989... The Soviet Union: Enthusiastic, And Fearful, About Computers In 1985 the Soviet Union introduced a new compulsory subject, The Principles of Informatics and Computer Technology, into 9th and 10th grade curriculums throughout the country....

Channel One: one pilot school gives a thumbs up. (Channel One teenage TV news program)
May 1, 1989... Channel One: One Pilot School Gives a Thumbs Up Rock music. Colorized computer graphics. Test pattern and numbers jump off the screen: 5-4-3-2-1. Channel One, the teenage TV news program, has begun. News and commercials filled...

Individual learning styles disregarded by computer-based instruction.
May 1, 1989... Individual Learning Styles Disregarded By Computer-Based Instruction American psychological and educational research has been characterized by two main approaches. In one approach, researchers have looked for general laws; Freud, Piaget and...

Heard it, read it, and saw it on the Grapevine. (Grapevine multimedia educational project)
May 1, 1989... Heard It, Read It, And Saw It On the Grapevine Creating a term project will never be the same for students in Patricia Hanlon's sophomore English class at San Francisco's Lowell High School. What made the difference this spring was a...

Research on Logo learning as a path to professional teacher development. (includes a related article on the knowledge a student uses in carrying out a project)
May 1, 1989... Research on Logo Learning as a Path To Professional Teacher Development As an educator who has been promoting the use of Logo for many years, I am frequently asked to identify research studies which can help teachers justify the continued...

The K-12 software industry: where's it going? (the educational software market) (contains related articles on software programs teachers use most and publishers that are 'falling by the wayside')
May 1, 1989... THE K-12 SOFTWARE INDUSTRY: Educational software publishers are in a quandary. There is currently an installed base of 2.5 million computers that are reaching the end of their life cycles, and newer, more powerful computers are on the...

A primer on automating the school library media center. (contains related articles on retrospective conversion options and one school's experience with going online)
May 1, 1989... A PRIMER ON AUTOMATING THE SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER There are now thousands of microcomputer-based library management systems in school library media centers throughout the U.S. Most of these systems are computerized circulation programs,...

Hand scanners: an inexpensive and easy way to capture graphics. (buyers guide)
May 1, 1989... Hand Scanners: An Inexpensive and Easy Way to Capture Graphics The desire of educators to use personal computers to produce graphics as well as text has led to a plethora of new hardware and software in the schools. The use of desktop...

Videodiscs as information archives for the classroom. (Contains a related article on how one educational service center produced an educational videodisc) (column)
May 1, 1989... Videodiscs as Information Archives For the Classroom For several months now much has been written in this column about the tremendous potential of videodisc and other optical disc technologies as archiving tools for audio and video material....

AppleWorks GS: the long-awaited upgrade is chock full of options. (Software Review) (evaluation)
May 1, 1989... AppleWorks GS: The Long-Awaited Upgrade Is Chock Full of Options At the 1988 Boston AppleFest, StyleWare Inc. handed out painter's hats labeled "GS Works," and the comparison with AppleWorks 2.0 was: "That Was Then, This Is Now." A few...

Tools and more tools: making teaching easier. (authoring systems, word lists, and memory checks) (evaluation)
May 1, 1989... Tools and More Tools: Making Teaching Easier This month's review looks at three different tool programs. The first addresses the fact that as computers become more sophisticated, authoring systems have become easier to use. Techbyte's...

Computer based training: a great way to learn. (Software Review) (evaluation)
May 1, 1989... Computer Based Training: A Great Way To Learn Using computers to help teach is not a new idea. Yet the training programs reviewed this month differ from standard computer-assisted instruction (CAI). Available only for MS-DOS machines, they...