Electronic Learning articles from November 1990

Electronic Learning archives from November 1990

Laptop computers and writing: a research study in Colorado shows that computers help improve the quality and quantity of student writing.
November 1, 1990... Laptop Computers And Writing To find out what effect the computer has on student writing, we conducted the following research project in my district. Early last school year, a teacher of a combined fifth/sixth-grade class whose students had...

New Macs from Apple. (Apple Computer introduces the Macintosh LC, Mac Classic and Mac IIsi) (product announcement)
November 1, 1990... New Macs From Apple Apple Computer Inc. has introduced a much anticipated Macintosh computer for education that can support a color monitor and, with the help of an emulator card, run Apple IIe software. Apple also announced two other Macs,...

Long-range planning. (the Bellevue, WA, School District's successful long-range technology plan; includes related article detailing steps for creating such a plan)
November 1, 1990... Long-Range Planning No one knows how technology will change in 10 years, five years, or even next year. How then does a district create a technology plan for the future? "We revise," says John Newsom, the Bellevue, Wash. School...

Teaching and learning online. (three example curriculum-based telecommunications projects encourage students to take control of their own learning; includes related article on the views of Dr Boris Berenfeld, director of the Soviet part of the Global Lab international environmental science project)
November 1, 1990... TEACHING AND LEARNING ONLINE Telecommunications is coming into its own as a valid--and powerful--instructional tool. No longer limited to sending pen pal letters over phone lines via the computer, teachers and students are using...

Mac word processors. (buyers guide)
November 1, 1990... Mac Word Processors Whether you have an old 512K Macintosh or you're planning to purchase a more capable computer from the Mac IIC line, there is a word-processing package that will meet your most demanding requirements. But be prepared to...

The IBM PS/1: it's great for novices, but more advanced users should think twice. (Hardware Review) (evaluation)
November 1, 1990... The IBM PS/1 IBM always seems to name the computers it targets for the home market as if they were miniatures of their "real" business computers. First came the PCjr. (as opposed to the PC), the Models 25 and 30 (versus the Models 50, 70,...

Science in motion. (Evergreen Laser Disc's MIST and Optical Data's Windows on Science, Primary Science videodisks)
November 1, 1990... Science In Motion By now, everyone knows there's a crisis in science education. We have been relying far too long on textbooks as the sole medium to teach our students science, and as a result, students have lost interest in this important...

Probability software. (Software Review) (brief reviews of MECC's Probability Lab and William K. Bradford Publishing's Sampling: Probability and Prediction) (evaluation)
November 1, 1990... Probability Software In its new standards on math teaching, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics makes its case for the study of probability in grades 5 to 8. "An understanding of probability and the related area of statistics is...

World exploration: atlas data bases, cartography programs that let students explore geography. (very brief reviews of several geography educational software packages) (buyers guide)
November 1, 1990... World Exploration In 1986 I took a class on how to create a geography data base using AppleWorks. Education had discovered how using data bases raised the level of student inquiry above memorizing state capitals, and, as a result,...

Moving beyond automation: teachers must use technology to redefine their teaching skills rather than automate traditional instructional practices.
November 1, 1990... Moving Beyond Automation While futurists tell us that 80 percent of the jobs our kindergarten students will hold as adults do not yet exist, that future generation will undoubtedly recognize the job of teacher when they look for work. ...