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Peer reviewedBorgh, Karin; Dickson, W. Patrick – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1992
Synthesized speech was added to a word processor used by children in grades two and five. Each student wrote four stories on a microcomputer and received spoken feedback on two of them. It was found that students wrote longer stories, edited more, and enjoyed writing more with the spoken feedback. (24 references) (LAE)
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Writing
Download full textGiacquinta, Joseph B. – 1984
This paper presents the first comparative findings emerging from 20 individual case studies into the adoption, use, and effects of microcomputers in families. The 20 families are first described according to a number of key demographic characteristics--socioeconomic, nationality, parent occupations, number and ages of children, etc. An examination…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitudes, Case Studies, Children
