Early literacy experiences, including reading and writing, serve as meaningful backdrops for teachers in early childhood contexts to support and embed both computational thinking and computer science into classroom instruction. This article shares how interactive in-class instruction that is embedded within rich literacy experiences and computer…

Students in two biostatistics courses at the Cornell Medical College and in a course in applications of computer science given in Cornell's School of Industrial Engineering were given access to an interactive package of computer programs enabling them to perform statistical analysis without the burden of hand computation. After a general…

Increased student involvement with the computer at Delta State University, Mississippi, is considered. The university purchased a new computer, NCR Criterion, with six terminals and time-sharing BASIC. Two of these terminals are located in the Department of Physical Sciences, with the others located in the School of Business and in the University…

The phrase "technology and education" usually means inventing new gadgets to teach the same old stuff in a thinly disguised version of the same old way. Moreover, if the gadgets are computers, the same old teaching becomes incredibly more expensive and biased towards its dullest parts, namely the kind of rote learning in which measurable…