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Swan, Karen – 1995
This paper examines the effects of Saturday morning cartoons on children's perceptions of social reality. The study consisted of an analysis of programs appearing between 8 and 11 o'clock in the morning on September 15, 1990, and June 9, 1992, focusing on the ethnicity, gender, and age of characters, the positive or negative portrayal of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Discrimination, Cartoons, Childhood Attitudes
Bird, Bruce – 1998
This paper discusses the development of two World Wide Web sites at Anne Arundel Community College (Maryland). The criteria for the selection of hardware and software for Web site development that led to the decision to use Microsoft FrontPage 98 are described along with its major components and features. The discussion of the Science Division Web…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), College Faculty, Community Colleges, Computer Software
Ip, Albert – 1998
Engaging learners on the World Wide Web is more than sending Web pages to the user. However, for many course delivery software programs, the smallest unit of delivery is a Web page. How content experts can create engaging Web pages has largely been ignored or taken for granted. This paper reports on an authoring model for creating pedagogically…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education
Wills, Deborah – 1998
The nature of the World Wide Web poses considerable challenges for the scholar or student who wishes to identify and locate Web resources of use to research. In contrast to the Web, the traditional library can be seen as a well-defined and organized physical space. An awareness of the successes, challenges and on-going projects involving library…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Literacy, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy
Wiebe, James H. – 1993
This book demonstrates, for teachers at all levels, applications of technology tools for the effective learning and teaching of mathematical skills and concepts as suggested by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It focuses on the use of general-purpose computer tools in the mathematics classroom, with an emphasis on problem…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Software
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Yaratan, Huseyin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2003
An ITS (Intelligent Tutoring System) is a teaching-learning medium that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology for instruction. Roberts and Park (1983) defines AI as the attempt to get computers to perform tasks that if performed by a human-being, intelligence would be required to perform the task. The design of an ITS comprises two distinct…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Testing, Researchers
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Papert, Seymour – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2005
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…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Programming Languages
Fischer, Robert – 1996
The report details development, at Southwest Texas State University and later at Pennsylvania State University, of a computer authoring system ("Libra") enabling foreign language faculty to develop multimedia lessons focusing on listening comprehension. Staff at Southwest Texas State University first developed a Macintosh version of the…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction
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
Boss, Richard W. – 1997
One of the most significant decisions in a library administrator's career is the decision to automate one or more of a library's operations. This book describes the present state of local library automation; the planning, selection, and implementation process; and the library administrator's role in the process. The bulk of the text provides a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Costs, Decision Making, Information Technology
Larose-Kuzenko, Michelle – 1997
The professional literature and research conclude that new technologies produce either similar or superior results to conventional classroom instruction, arguably because technology has positive effects on students' attitudes toward learning and gives students more control over their learning. Teacher- librarians, as information specialists,…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Uses in Education, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Dix, Alan J.; Finlay, Janet E.; Abowd, Gregory D.; Beale, Russell – 1998
This book examines human-computer interaction (HCI), with a focus on designing computer technology to be more usable by people. The book provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject through a synthesis of computer science, cognitive science, psychology, and sociology, and stresses a principled approach to interactive systems design that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Computer Interfaces, Computer Science, Computer System Design
Steinberg, Shirley R., Ed.; Kincheloe, Joe L., Ed. – 1998
Changing economic realities, coupled with children's access to information about the adult world, have drastically changed the social construction of childhood. Noting that education takes place in a variety of social sites including but not limited to school, this book examines the influence of commercial concerns on this cultural pedagogy and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business, Change Strategies, Child Rearing
Papp, Raymond – 1998
In order to identify the IS (Information Systems) skills in greatest demand in Connecticut and the New England region, classified ads for business-oriented IS positions appearing in the region's major newspapers during the summer of 1998 were analyzed. This paper highlights these findings and compares them to the skills employers from other…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Content Analysis
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Hopkins, Teresa; Thomas, Andrew; Bailey, Mike – Information Services & Use, 1998
Describes the production of computer-based resources for students of textiles and engineering in the United Kingdom. Highlights include funding by the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP), courseware author/subject expert interaction, usage test and evaluation, authoring software, graphics, computer-aided design simulation, self-test…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Assisted Design, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Graphics
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