This paper reports on research to study the benefit of a punctual self-directed learning experience with a hypermedia in the appropriation of a foreign language. Twenty-eight educational sciences students took a 55 item pretest on English notions. The students then engaged in a self-directed learning session using the CD-ROM, "L'anglais…

This report discusses the potential for computers and other educational technologies to aid in school restructuring in New York State. Issues involved in such a restructuring are examined and include: (1) the need for a common effort in creating a state program; (2) current practices and current realities in the classroom; (3) current uses of such…

Technology is a powerful and important support tool for restructuring the school's teaching and learning environment. This document examines the rate of historical acquisition, level of access, and degree of use of technology within New York State public schools. The number of microcomputers in the schools has more than doubled in the past 8…

This 30-item annotated bibliography is composed of resource materials for using computer-assisted instructional materials to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) and foreign languages at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. For each of the entries, the following information is indicated: target language educational level,…

A workshop was conducted to examine educational materials developed in countries in Asia and the Pacific in order to make available exemplary materials to share with other educators in the region. This booklet is a product of that workshop. It includes an overview of the innovative materials selected and two chapters describing innovative projects…

A project was undertaken to develop a set of individualized instructional materials for use in helping academically disadvantaged students to acquire the vocational, study, and learning skills necessary to succeed in secondary and postsecondary programs. In order to identify the industrial vocational concepts and related study and learning skills…

The "Robot Roadshow Program" is designed to increase the interest of elementary school children in technical disciplines, specifically math and science. The program focuses on children from schools categorized as rural or underserved, which often have limited access to advanced technical resources. We developed the program using robots…

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR PARTICIPANTS, INCLUDING STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SUPERVISORS AND CONSULTANTS, SPECIALISTS AND TEACHER EDUCATORS FROM ALL SERVICES OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION REPRESENTING 31 STATES AND CANADA, ATTENDED THE SEMINAR WHICH HAD THE PURPOSES OF (1) INFORMING PARTICIPANTS OF THE MANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN…

Technological developments, which have improved and increased the audiovisual materials and mechanical aids available, can be especially useful to teachers of science, math, and foreign languages. This technology revolution is not a threat to teachers, but a source of educational tools to be used as a part of an overall teaching design. Most…

The Media Committee of the Atkins Library of the University of North Carolina performed a 3-month study to review the library's existing policies on media resources and services and to make recommendations for improvement and expansion. As a result, the integration of all learning materials and services at the university was proposed, with the…

Elementary school social studies research, virtually all of which began in the 1960's, is clustered and summarized. No deliberate attempt was made to evaluate methods or particular findings. The following sections are included in these categories: 1) Goals: for education, social studies content, attitudes and values, behaviors and process,…

This study guide contains the objectives, design, and evaluation in plan for Center of Discovery I, and lists topics, directives, and basic readings and in-depth references and the self-tests for an 11-week program of independent study within the first of four education courses in a 2-year program. The major part of the guide is devoted to a…

The demands made by modern technological society on the traditional educational system are briefly discussed. The remainder of the compendium describes 11 projects which are using educational technology, principally televised instruction, with success. Projects from Brazil, Canada, West Germany, France, England, Japan, Poland, and the United…

This unit centers about the idea that people of different backgrounds interchange ideas and interact freely when there is open contact among groups within a city. Using Chicago as an example, the subgeneralizations which support this idea deal with immigrant groups, their traditions, cultural identity, and acculturation. Like other units in this…

The primary objectives of the project were to develop non-book instructional materials for use in Music Education, to put these materials into use, and to subsequently evaluate and refine the materials. The audiovisual materials and the equipment needed to present them included an overhead projector and various types of transparencies. The use of…