Electronic Learning articles from October 1995

Electronic Learning archives from October 1995

Back into bad habits. (teaching teachers in an old-fashioned manner) (Technology Information)
October 1, 1995... I have been a teacher for 15 years and a technology coordinator for three. And I'm embarrassed to admit that the minute I was named district technology coordinator, I fell into doing all the things I learned not to do as a teacher. in the...

Deja vu all over again? Why the computer may in fact go the way of the streopticon. (Industry Trend or Event)
October 1, 1995... Imagine America without electricity, cars, telephones, medical research, computers. It would resemble 18th-century America--grounded in agriculture with a cash-poor economy, few cities, and exceedingly short life spans for its citizens. Many...

Selling the dream - twice. (Rockford High, Grand Rapids, MI) (Industry Trend or Event)
October 1, 1995... Talk to anyone in Michigan and they probably will have heard about Rockford High, a massive new school in a rural town outside of Grand Rapids outfitted with state-of-the-art technology. Since its opening in January 1993, the school has welcomed...

Grow your own business partnerships.(includes related articles on the Newport, RI, public schools and partnering tips) (Industry Trend or Event)
October 1, 1995... Louisville, Ky., was an anxious place in the early 1980s. The city's industrial base was eroding, and community leaders were wracking their brains for strategies to ensure its economic future. That's when the local Chamber of Commerce invited MIT...

Every educator's WWW: the World Wide Web - explained, at last, without the hype.(includes related article on parental control software for Internet access) (Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
October 1, 1995... Web Browser, Web page, Web links, Webmania--we interrupt this flight into cyberspace to address the amorphous phenomenon known as the World Wide Web, and to answer every educator's plaintive question: beyond the tangle of stick techno-jargon,...