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Pendergast, Seth – Music Educators Journal, 2021
Interest in creative music technologies is on the rise among secondary students. Still, some music teachers are unsure how to integrate creative music technologies into their instruction. This article explores one versatile and powerful technology for the music classroom: digital audio workstations (DAWs). First, I discuss the central role of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Creative Teaching, Secondary School Students, Music Teachers
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Siko, Jason; Barbour, Michael; Toker, Sacip – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2011
To date, research involving homemade PowerPoint games as an instructional tool has not shown statistically significant gains in student performance. This paper examines the results of a study comparing the performance of students in a high school chemistry course who created homemade PowerPoint games as a test review with the students who used a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instructional Materials, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
Eiser, Leslie – Classroom Computer Learning, 1986
Examines problem-solving in selected software, considering what packages really teach and how useful they are in classrooms. Includes a table listing 21 packages with information in such categories as: suggested ages; solving standard logic puzzles; trial/error or predicting outcomes; breaking tasks into smaller parts; drawing conclusions; and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shi, Fuqian; Wei, Jincai – International Education Studies, 2008
In the current teaching activities on curriculum, teachers taught all kinds of computer language at the most of the time. Students also focus on a variety of examinations, but the real time to train students' independent software developing skill is very limited. This has resulted in the students only to copy other people's systems design ideas,…
Descriptors: Programming, Creative Thinking, Creative Development, Science Activities
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Brunner, Ann; Sheehan, Sharon – Mathematics Teacher, 1997
Presents algebra course curriculum that utilizes a symbolic algebra system called PAD (Power, Application, and Depth). Demonstrates an example using PAD and points out that mathematics courses using this software present new ways for students to launch the power of algebraic thinking. (ASK)
Descriptors: Algebra, Computer Software, Creative Thinking, Educational Technology
Langston, M. Diane – 1986
Many people are interested in computer aids to rhetorical invention and want to know how to evaluate an invention aid, what the criteria are for a good one, and how to assess the trade-offs involved in buying one product or another. The frame of reference for this evaluation is an "old paradigm," which treats the computer as if it were…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Authoring Aids (Programing), Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Trimble, Sherry – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
Today's educational software has transcended original drill and practice functions to provide enjoyable learning experiences through simulation, tutorial, and special education programs that develop reasoning and problem-solving skills. Teacher and administrator effectiveness can be enhanced by lesson design, scheduling, attendance, grade…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Simulation