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Haynes, Jacqueline A.; Malouf, David B. – Academic Therapy, 1986
Learning disabled students can make more effective use of computer assisted instruction if they incorporate four metacognitive strategies: (1) awareness of task goals, (2) knowledge of applicable learning strategies, (3) selection of appropriate learning strategies, and (4) self-monitoring. (DB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Lesch, Lyn – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
This book examines how the structure of schools might be changed so that students in their formative years are able to learn in a manner that allows them to be more creative. The modern world is shrinking as technology and connectivity create new ways to live, communicate, and do business. Education and learning must follow suit. The author…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Parent Role, Learning Processes, Educational Technology
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Sinatra, Richard – Journal of Reading, 1991
Presents ways that the learning of text structure can occur naturally for adolescents in a whole language framework. Offers five global contexts in which conceptualization, communication, collaboration can occur to help students use language and understand how text is organized. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Junior High Schools, Learning Strategies, Text Structure
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Patil, Sanjeev; Dikshit, Suman – Physics Education, 1993
Discusses the need for a student who is using computer-aided instruction to also study the actual learning process. Regardless of the superiority of the teaching materials, the restructuring of previously existing knowledge structures in the learner is difficult. Computer-aided instruction should be aimed at helping with this restructuring.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
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Rooze, Gene E. – Michigan Social Studies Journal, 1989
Observes that preparing and searching a database will help students analyze, synthesize, and evaluate data, but stresses the need to distinguish between teaching how to process information and how to think. Sees the database as a tool in teaching social studies but maintains that the primary goal is to teach thinking skills. (CH)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
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Neapolitan, Jerry – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Describes the results of an experiment designed to test the effectiveness of simple computer-assisted instructional software for sociology classes. Tests a computer tutorial on attribution theory. Found that students who took the computer tutorial did somewhat better on a quiz than the subjects did who only read the material. (KO)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Research, Higher Education
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Anderson, Richard H. – Teaching Sociology, 1990
Presents a system in which students in an introductory sociology class use computers to analyze data from the National Opinion Research Center's (NORC) General Social Surveys. Reviews obstacles to the use of computers by both students and instructors and shows how these obstacles can be reduced. (DB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Hancock, Joelie – Australian Journal of Reading, 1983
Reports on personal observations of students using computers and concludes that computers can, indeed, revolutionize learning in the classroom. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
Manouchehri, Azita – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1997
Discusses the use of spreadsheets for mathematical problem solving to help develop higher-level-thinking skills and foster an experimental attitude toward learning mathematics. An example is given of middle-school and high-school students investigating a number-structures problem. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools
Novelli, Joan – Instructor, 1993
Describes how technology helped one elementary teacher meet the needs and celebrate the strengths of all his students in a mixed-ability-grouped, student-centered classroom. Technology allowed the children many more choices for different kinds of learning and helped them develop their individual strengths. (SM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Creative Teaching
Epstein, Julia L. – 1984
The pedagogical and theoretical questions raised by the notion of using microcomputers in the teaching of literature are covered in this report, rather than the current state of computer use in the classroom. In part, the report formulates basic premises that underly what teachers do in literature classrooms and asks what skills, concepts, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Philosophy, English Instruction, Higher Education
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Lancy, David F. – OCSS Review, 1990
Contends that microcomputers were introduced into the social studies classrooms to teach higher order thinking skills. Maintains that computers can aid in teaching both process and content. Reviews new computer software programs and points out each programs' educational objectives and problems. Contends microcomputers are an invaluable tool of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews
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Brent, Edward E., Jr.; And Others – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Describes the computer program labeled ERVING which teaches students to reason sociologically using E. Goffman's classic dramaturgical perspective. Suggests that artificial intelligence programs offer a means for developing instructional models for the social sciences which are not amenable to a quantitative approach. (KO)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Higher Education
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Lambert, Matthew E.; Lenthall, Gerard – Teaching of Psychology, 1988
Describes use of computerized case simulations in which undergraduate psychology students are asked to function as therapists. Despite reporting positive reactions from instructors and students, emphasizes that simulation should be used only as a supplement to courses and that there is a danger of students accepting statements as facts merely…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Clinical Psychology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation
Sirjani, Elizabeth A. – Computing Teacher, 1991
Provides Terrapin LOGO programs that use graphic manipulatives--squares, logs, and units--to form the area of a rectangle as a graphical representation for any trinomial of the form: Axx + Bx + C. An important component is the connection of the procedural skill of trinomial factoring to the visualization of the accompanying rectangular displays.…
Descriptors: Algebra, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
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