Electronic Learning articles from September 1995

Electronic Learning archives from September 1995

Electronic Learning in cyberspace.(publication will be available though World Wide Web and the Scholastic Network in fall 1995)
September 1, 1995... No longer content just to cover telecommunications, Electronic Learning has launched itself, double-barreled, into cyberspace. Beginning this fall, EL will provide information and inspiration to technology-using educators via both the World Wide...

Texas plans $1.5 billion for school technology.
September 1, 1995... It's a plan as big as Texas and expensive to boot, but the results should upgrade distance learning, teacher training, and online curriculum delivery for schools in that state. Texas lawmakers have approved an initiative that will put $1.5...

Protecting kids on the I-Way: anxiety sparks private and public solutions.(SurfWatch Software's SurfWatch parental control software on sexually explicit material)
September 1, 1995... To soothe the nerves of educators and parents who worry that youngsters setting out to surf the Net without safety gear might run into something nasty--content that's violent, sexual, or just plain had for kids--a handful of companies have come...

The new literacy of the Net: judging the quality of information in an unfiltered medium.(Center for Children and Technology/EDC's Associate Director Cornelia Brunner)(Interview)
September 1, 1995... The Internet with its profusion of information presents awesome new challenges for today's educators. We asked Bill Tally, senior research associate, and Cornelia Brunner, associate director, of the Center for Children and Technology/EDC to talk...

Rules to train by.(training teachers to use technology)(Tutorial)
September 1, 1995... In more than a decade of coaxing teachers to use technology, Sharon McCoy Bell has learned a thing or two. Director of Educational Technology for the New Orleans (La.) Public Schools, Bell oversees a budget of some $2 million, of which 20-25...

Confronting the Holocaust: using gopher to research and discover the tragic past.(Tutorial) (Tutorial)
September 1, 1995... The Internet is truly a library without walls, providing access to information on every conceivable subject. one invaluable way to locate what you need is to use gopher, a program developed at the University of Minnesota. Gopher "goes for" you,...

Maxing out on multimedia: more is definitely less if even your newest computer can't run it.(Voices from the Field)(Column)
September 1, 1995... I have yet to hear the sound of one hand clapping, but I'm getting used to the sound of one computer crashing. And with each crash, my unseemily language gets louder and more colorful. Why, I ask myself, are educational publishers creating...

Neighborhoods as laboratory.(Bilingual Bicultural Mini School of East Harlem uses technology to study neighborhood)
September 1, 1995... The gym at the Bilingual Bicultural Mini school (BBMS) in East Harlem in New York City is a carnival of activity. Brightly decorated booths for every class and grade circle the gym, and children--from tiny kindergartners to semi-sophisticated...

The battle over bilingual education.(includes related articles on keeping native languages alive and a guide to bilingual software)
September 1, 1995... While it rages, pragmatic teachers improvise with meager technology resources to give second-language learners a fighting chance. After a most kids back to their homes in East Boston, 15-year-old Felipe Arango lingered in a tiny computer lab at...

Educator of the year Kathy Popp.(former teacher inspires other teachers to adopt technology)(Column)
September 1, 1995... It's a hot summer day in Fishertown, Pa., a small rural community 30 miles outside of Johnstown, in the center of the state. The middle school is getting a cleaning; desks, books, and school supplies are piled in the hall as custodians wax the...

K-6 reference: new tools rule!(five multimedia encyclopedias for elementary level)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1995... Thanks to multimedia, the "junior encyclopedias" we remember from elementary school have found a new life. Colorful, interactive software reference works for the K-6 set combine an amazing amount of information with appealing sights and sounds....