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Download full textLevin, James A.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1987
The instructional media created by microcomputers interconnected by modems to form long-distance networks present some powerful new opportunities for education. While other uses of computers in education have been built on conventional instructional models of classroom interaction, instructional electronic networks facilitate a wider use of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning, High Schools
Waugh, Michael; And Others – 1988
Arguing that electronic networking provides a medium which is qualitatively superior to the traditional classroom for conducting certain types of problem solving exercises, this paper details the Water Problem Solving Project, which was conducted on the InterCultural Learning Network in 1985 and 1986 with students from the United States, Mexico,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Networks, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedJohnson, D. LaMont; Maddux, Cleborne D. – Computers in the Schools, 1991
Argues that educational computing is a discipline and discusses issues that need to be addressed in this discipline, including similarities with experimental psychology; networks and integrated learning systems; problem-solving software versus domain-specific software; computer labs versus classroom integration; software quality; computer equity;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkCampbell, Gardner – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
The author believes that information technologies are powerfully heuristic in addressing one of education's deepest ambitions. Following Engelbart's paradigm, he sees these technologies as augmenting human intellect, not simply because they permit high-speed calculations but also because they externalize our own cognitive processes in a way that…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Cognitive Processes, Heuristics, Critical Thinking
Maddux, Cleborne D. – Educational Technology, 1989
Identifies and discusses 10 overly optimistic claims for the use of computers in the classroom, and makes recommendations concerning each claim. Highlights include computer labs versus curriculum integration; the development of hardware versus software; the values of computer literacy; computer networking; computer education training; the use of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Networks
Harris, Judi – Computing Teacher, 1994
Provides activity structures for and gives examples of problem-solving projects to be used with educational telecomputing. Highlights include information searches, electronic process writing, sequential creations, parallel problem solving, simulations, social action projects, and instructions for accessing information about these and other…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Simulation
Ryan, William C., Ed. – 1989
The papers presented at the 1989 National Educational Computing Conference focused on ways of using technology to improve educational quality. Topics of the 50 papers and more than 120 abstracts provided in these proceedings include applications of artificial intelligence and the development of expert systems; authoring systems; using the computer…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks
