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Hedley, Carolyn N.; Ellsworth, Nancy J. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1992
Suggests that the classroom of the future will include more technology, more networking, more telecommunications, more interactive learning with computers, a greater use of the interactive videodisc, more multimedia learning environments, more computer databases for education, more special materials for special learners, and more materials that…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change
Weisser, Christian – 1997
Most instructors today feel that using computers in classrooms to create electronic forums automatically results in a more egalitarian setting, but technology can become an effective cloak for otherwise oppressive practices. These settings can potentially reinscribe dominant ideologies, stifling students rather than empowering them. These…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
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Webb, Patricia R. – Computers and Composition, 1997
Suggests that the revolutionary potentials of network technologies are not intrinsic to the technologies. Uses experiences of Daedalus Interchange in composition classrooms to argue for critical engagement with technologies. Suggests that unless writing teachers critically address students' perceptions of writing, they will replicate the same…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Educational Technology
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Watson, Deryn M. – Computers and Education, 1990
Discussion of the use of microcomputers in secondary schools in the United Kingdom focuses on classroom use versus separate computer laboratories. Group dynamics among students working at computers are discussed; teachers' attitudes are considered; single microcomputers versus computer networks are examined; and case studies from geography classes…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classrooms, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Kinkead, Joyce – College Composition and Communication, 1987
Describes different kinds of student correspondence over the writing center network at a state university. Argues that the interaction between student and text via machine promotes good writing and improved motivation, even when the subject matter is as extracurricular as dating. Includes messages from student to student, student to teacher, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
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Marcus, Stephen – English Journal, 1987
First of a two-part series identifying probable changes in English instruction resulting from technology's impact on society and schools. Predicts consequences of interactive reading and writing software, style checkers, teacher-monitored networks in electronic writing labs, computer generated texts, and desktop publishing. (JG)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Networks
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Marcus, Stephen – English Journal, 1987
Second of a two-part series that identifies probable changes in English instruction resulting from technology's impact on society and schools. Provides a review of five books recommended for considering the source, nature, and direction of trends in hardware, software, and "neural netware," or brains. Reports questions used by researchers on this…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Networks