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Weiss, Suzanne – Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2006
For policymakers, educators and others interested in learning more about the one-to-one computing movement, this issue of "The Progress of Education Reform" spotlights three particularly useful resources: (1) a detailed review of the challenges faced by states and districts implementing laptop programs, and of lessons learned to date in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Educational Technology, Access to Computers
The Quarterly, 1988
This newsletter has been designed to update and supplement the curriculum guide "Resources for Teaching Virginia Government." Issue 1 features "Campaigning on the Tube" (J. Babb), an articles that teaches about television's role in promoting political events and candidates in Virginia. "...Demagogues, Pedagogues,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Constitutional History, Instructional Materials, Local Government
Ney, Catherine R. – 1996
Ocean Environments for Grade 5 is a 12-week interdisciplinary ocean environmental unit designed for teachers to use with their students. The unit emphasizes investigation and understanding of our ocean environments, including their geological, physical, and biological characteristics. It also stresses awareness of public policy decisions related…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Ecology, Environment, Environmental Education
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. Div. of Sciences and Elementary Administration. – 1986
The purpose of this guide is to provide a resource for teacher use in computer mathematics instruction. Although it is not intended to be used as a textbook or a complete course syllabus, the guide does include a set of student objectives which are designed to define the content of a 1-year course in computer mathematics. The major focus of the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Course Content, Course Objectives, Courseware
Spradling, Tina – 2000
An adult educator at an all-male maximum-security correctional center in Virginia conducted a research project to learn her students' attitudes toward the computers that had recently been introduced in their classroom. She used the following data collection tools and activities: a nine-question survey that was administered to the students in all…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
Traverse, Dennis – 2000
An academic teacher at a maximum-security prison in Virginia conducted a study to determine how to improve instruction and motivate adult learners in a correctional facility. Data were collected through a survey that was distributed to 22 individuals and completed by 20 of them (2 academic teachers, 1 vocational instructor, 6 students, and 11…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning