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Smith, Ruth Baynard – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1994
Intermediate level academically talented students learn essential elements of computer programming by working with robots at enrichment workshops at Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey. The children combine creative thinking and problem-solving skills to program the robots' microcomputers to perform a variety of movements. (JDD)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Creative Thinking, Enrichment Activities, Intermediate Grades
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Yelland, Nicola – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Explored the performance of primary school children in Logo programming tasks while they worked in one of three gender pairs (girl, boy, or boy-girl). Found no considerable differences in performance based on gender. Results suggest that what distinguished performance was the application of metastrategic processes--the most effective solutions…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Discovery Learning
Berg, Susan; Benz, Carolyn; Lasley, Tom; Raisch, Dan – 1997
While the computer chip is revolutionizing society as a whole, its effects on education remain limited. This paper identifies and describes how exemplary elementary school teachers in Southwestern Ohio use technology in the classroom, and provides a model for the development of tomorrow's classrooms. Qualitative and quantitative data collection…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Change, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
Andrews, K.; And Others – 1994
This document contains 102 one-page conference demonstrations/posters of individual research in the use of multimedia and hypermedia in education. Teaching and learning strategies and styles are addressed; multimedia applications for cooperative learning, problem solving and decision making are related. The uses of object-oriented modelling,…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education