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Louie, Steven – 1985
A convenience sample of 46 subjects was selected from 104 elementary through secondary self-selected students who participated in a prototypical voluntary after-school and summer computer camp operated by an American southwestern nonprofit educational research laboratory. Following an initial 16-hour exposure to LOGO and Bank Street Writer, a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
Herrmann, Andrea W. – 1985
In a high school writing class of eight students, a computer was used as a word processor to permit close observation of students as they learned. The class was studied using ethnographic techniques: videotape, audiotape, teacher/researcher journals, student writing, and interviews. Three types of learners emerged: marginal--those who had…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction
Marrapodi, Maryann – 1984
This guide is a selected list of 25 software packages and 15 books about educational computing. It is the first step in guiding librarians, teachers, tutors, and other literacy providers to choose the best and most appropriate software for use by their students and staff. Software is divided by these topics: problem-solving software, tool programs…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Books, Computer Literacy
Brown, Jane L. – 1985
Designing a curriculum to introduce freshman composition students to computer assisted composition involves the cooperation of the composition instructor and the writing center director. One college has developed such a curriculum using the "Milliken Word Processor" (Milliken Publishing Company), a simple program with a variety of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College English, College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction

Heffron, Kathleen – Reading Teacher, 1986
Explains how word processing can make it easy for students to adapt and improve text until they are happy with the results. Offers an example of word processing in action. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Theories, Elementary Education

Jackson, Vivien – Educational Review, 1987
Computers have a place within the teaching of English. Specifically, the computer can promote collaborative talk and learning in the context of simulations, word processing, and information handling. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation, Courseware

Teague, Marianne; And Others – Education and Computing, 1987
Three articles discuss various aspects of computers in elementary education: (1) the use of electronic information services with elementary students in Maryland; (2) the introduction of computers into classrooms with students aged 10-12 in Switzerland; and (3) the use of microcomputer-based simulation in the United Kingdom to encourage…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Databases, Developed Nations

Language Arts, 1988
Two articles point out the importance of students' collaboration in the computer lab. The first describes two students' use of the word processor to write a story collaboratively. The second analyzes the dialogue of two students playing a computer game, showing that such games help students become better at planning and decision making. (ARH)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Collaborative Writing, Computer Games
Norman, Rose – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1988
Discussion of the use of microcomputer-assisted instruction for advanced college writing courses emphasizes word processing exercises and programmed lessons. Topics discussed include computer writing labs, local area networks, commercially available software for writing instruction, teacher developed programs, and authoring languages and authoring…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Higher Education

Sanders, Alton; Sanders, Ruth – CALICO Journal, 1987
Describes the development in progress of a syntactic parser of German called "Syncheck," which uses the programing language "Prolog." The grammar is written in a formalism called "Definate Clause Grammar." The purpose of "Syncheck" is to provide advice on grammatical correctness to intermediate and advanced…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, College Students, Courseware, Error Analysis (Language)

O'Weary, Timothy – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Proposes the use of a computer program called "Slo-Write" that slows word processing down to one character every five seconds for use by word processing burnouts. (NKA)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Professional Development, Publish or Perish Issue, Stress Variables
Computing Teacher, 1985
Defines computer literacy and describes a computer literacy course which stresses ethics, hardware, and disk operating systems throughout. Core units on keyboarding, word processing, graphics, database management, problem solving, algorithmic thinking, and programing are outlined, together with additional units on spreadsheets, simulations,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Computer Literacy, Computer Simulation
Bourque, Joseph H.; And Others – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1985
Three articles discuss: (1) a Montana State University pilot project utilizing a local area network for word processing; (2) an interdisciplinary arrangement between Purdue University's Electrical Engineering and English Departments which utilizes computers to teach writing to engineering students; and (3) whether computers should be used to teach…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Objectives, Educational Principles, Engineering Education
Levin, Barbara B. – Curriculum Review, 1985
Discusses specific ways to maximize microcomputer use in elementary and secondary schools including peer tutoring, individualized feedback, cooperative and discovery learning, tournament competition, drills and practice, student developed materials, creative problem solving, creative writing, databases, keyboarding, and student software…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Databases, Discovery Learning
Teichman, Milton – Perspectives in Computing: Applications in the Academic and Scientific Community, 1985
Describes students' reactions to and comments on an experimental writing course in which all essays were composed on computer terminals using XEDIT and WATERLOO SCRIPT. Students had favorable reactions to revision ease and enjoyability factor, but reacted unfavorably to learning word processing, equipment failure, and confinement to one writing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Computer Software, Computers