Describes one professor's problems in learning how to use a computer. Reviews several types of computer software and their functions. Calls for college professors to discover how a computer can help them utilize their time more efficiently. (BSR)

Maintains that teaching methods of statistical calculation in geography may be enhanced by using a computer spreadsheet. The spreadsheet format of rows and columns allows the data to be inspected and altered to demonstrate various statistical properties. The inclusion of graphics and database facilities further adds to the value of a spreadsheet.…

Study conducted in 1985 involved a sample of male and female teachers in Quebec, Canada. The study provides insight into the use of microcomputers in Quebec schools. Study underscored inequalities in the distribution of computers based on school size, town population, and administrative region. (RB)

After evaluation, three software programs were chosen and used by fifth-grade pupils to tutor third graders in grammar rules. Setting up the tutoring programs, developing games for it, and describing the results are covered. Sources for the software packages are listed. (MT)

Strategies developed by teachers for using word processing software in writing programs for grades K-6 are presented. These strategies will work with just one computer in a classroom. Two software programs are described. (MT)

Investigates the impact of computer use on preschool activities and whether the computer's presence decreases participation in all activities equally or whether specific activities are affected more than others. Results indicate that involvement in art activity decreased and that the children whose involvement in art activity diminished switched…

This electronic utility promises to instantly deliver to the classroom a vast array of constantly updated instructional materials--software, textbooks, news services, video, databases, reference sources, word processing, and spreadsheet tools--and to bring all of technology's capabilities together into one integrated system. (Author)

The author discusses the types of information contained in the Vocational-Technical Consortium of the States (V-TECS) databases and various supplemental tools; he also describes methods of obtaining access to the databases. (CH)

As a way of helping states and districts interested in laptop initiatives, the Northeast and the Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium (NEIRTEC) has reviewed lessons learned to date from many laptop initiatives around the country and has prepared this guide. Drawn from articles and reports about current and past programs (see…

The impacts of computers on writing have been widely studied for three decades. Even basic computers functions, i.e. word processing, have been of great assistance to writers in modifying their essays. The research on Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has revealed that computers have the capacity to function as a more effective cognitive tool (Attali,…

Students who learn mathematics with CAS calculators are likely to develop new practices for doing and recording mathematics. Students discussed in this paper were able to use CAS calculators in examinations, making their own decisions about what to document as written records for solutions to problems. A comparison of some features of written…

This paper describes the mobile computing at Grove City College, a small, private, liberal arts institution in Western Pennsylvania. They have entered their second decade of mobile computing for students in the school of about 2200. Each incoming freshman receives a laptop computing and inkjet printer during the fall orientation, all a benefit of…

Canada is an information-rich society where the amount of information and knowledge is doubling at a significant rate (Thornburg, 1997). Technology, a product of this information, has an enormous impact on how educators teach and on how the students learn. Among the questions educators must now address are: How do students learn best in school? …

This paper is part of a dissertation defended in January 2001 as part of the author's Ph.D. requirement. The study investigated the effects of use of Mathematica, a computer algebra system, in learning basic linear algebra concepts, It was done by means of comparing two first year linear algebra classes, one traditional and one Mathematica…

More than two decades of research and experience supports the idea that computer and calculator technologies can have an important role to play in supporting and effecting student learning (Heid, 1988; Kaput, 1992; Kutzler, 1996; Papert, 1980; Waits and Demana, 1999). The development of Classroom Communication Systems (CCSs) is providing new…