This paper demonstrates a methodology for effectively integrating computer-based learning tools in science teaching and learning. This methodology provides a means of systematic analysis to identify the capabilities of particular software tools and to formulate a series of competencies relevant to physical science that could be developed by means…

Describes interactive educational technology and discusses its use in the classroom. Asserts that research about the effectiveness of interactive technology ignores links to curriculum goals and educational objectives. Asserts that a human tutor may still be needed to extend the thinking of a group. (CFR)

This article explores the conflicting visions of curriculum promoted by humanistic educators and curriculum technologists. Notes that most schools and teachers combine aspects of both orientations, exemplifying an eclecticism which blends the efficiency of instructional technology and the personal freedom of humanistic approaches to instruction.…

Suggests in Bruce Kimball's thesis that a pragmatic consensus was emerging about the understanding of liberal education offers that it might be best understood by comparing it to J. Rawl's idea of an "overlapping consensus." States that by comparing and contrasting these ideas that the emerging consensus is pragmatic in nature. (CMK)

The emergence and rapid growth of computer network technologies are changing the way people live and learn. Computer networks provide new alternatives for the design, development, storage and distribution of, as well as access to, learning materials. Therefore, they present new and formidable challenges for curriculum designers and teachers. In…

Asserts that teacher educators struggle with how to represent the complexities of teaching in an isolated and sanitized undergraduate classroom. Describes three approaches: (1) case studies; (2) development of hypermedia environments; and (3) the integration of electronically based computer networks. (CFR)