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Peer reviewedEllsworth, Nancy J.; Hedley, Carolyn N. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1992
Reviews computer networks and online services designed especially for teachers, as well as networks broadly targeted for business, home, and education. Presents a resources directory of networks to assist persons with disabilities. (SR)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHedley, Carolyn N. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1992
Offers principles for purchasing a new personal computer, and discusses matching principles with needs. (SR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer System Design, Computers, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHedley, Carolyn N.; Ellsworth, Nancy J. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1993
Suggests that critical thinking and higher level thinking, involving such abilities as analysis, reasoning, decision making, problem solving, and evaluation, occur as a function of reanalyzing and restructuring information. Presents software for students and teachers to handle such knowledge restructuring, particularly as it is presented in…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBalajthy, Ernest – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1997
Presents the first year's results of a continuing project to monitor the availability of software of relevance for literacy education purposes. Concludes there is an enormous amount of software available for use by teachers of reading and literacy--whereas drill-and-practice software is the largest category of software available, large numbers of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Electronic Text, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTenny, John L. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1992
Describes how the computer can support the study process of students variously described as "multivariate, nonlinear thinkers,""dyslexic,""learning disabled," and "purple people." Describes features of a Macintosh program called "Inspiration" that enables easy test entry and manipulation in a graphic mode, placing emphasis on the considerable…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedMiller, Larry – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1998
Speculates that computer-based multimedia packages possess the potential to change children's symbol-weaving processes (storytelling in which children treat talk, pictures, and words as equals). Discusses how normal classroom practice can be affected by multimedia composing tools, and how teachers can take advantage of the positive aspects of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Software, Elementary Education, Multimedia Materials
Peer reviewedSinatra, Richard – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1992
Describes four global areas (children's literature, thematic approach, language experience, and interactive computer software programs) in which meaningful context is used to increase poor readers' sight and expanding reading vocabularies. Describes teaching procedures for each of the areas that help poor readers choose the types of context that…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Computer Software, Context Clues, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedMacArthur, Charles A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1999
Reviews specific ways in which computers can support the basic transcription processes involved in writing, focusing on computer applications that go beyond word processing, including spelling and grammar checkers, speech synthesis, word prediction, and speech recognition. Focuses only on writing mechanics, and clarifies the extent to which…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
