Three examples from Canadian schools and elsewhere illustrate the ways in which computers and computer networks can improve language skills, both first and second. Computer networks can provide opportunities for collaborative learning experiences facilitating literacy development and cultural exchange. (LMO)

Contends that introducing elementary students to history concepts is difficult because they have few reference points for comprehending change over time. Discusses the use of buttons for an inquiry-based activity designed to heighten student interest and learning. (CFR)

This discussion of naturalistic interventions with young children experiencing learning and behavioral problems notes their bases in studies of competent caregivers and focuses on intervention in the child's usual environments, provision of experiences targeting functional behaviors, and caregiver skills that facilitate learning and behavior…

Discusses strategies for increasing long-term administrative support of experiential college programs, including identifying client groups, establishing program credibility through outside sources, developing alliances within the institution, adapting to the institutional context, working with members of the institution to help achieve their…

The Community Observation Project in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) has helped more than 100 secondary students with disabilities to learn prevocational skills and behaviors through observation and hands-on experience at 20 local businesses. Details of program implementation, including recordkeeping forms, are provided. (DB)

Academic libraries and schools of library and information studies (LIS) may, by using LIS students to staff an information desk as fieldwork for a basic reference course, collaborate to provide useful educational experiences to LIS students and reliable reference service to library users. (Author/AEF)

Discusses ways that arts and crafts can be integrated into content learning activities. Describes activities in a unit on animals in winter, noting that arts and crafts present an opportunity for children to demonstrate learning in new ways. (JW)

A teacher at Upland Hills School (Royal Oaks, Michigan) describes how he and groups of seventh and eighth graders built a 175-foot bridge across a gully between the school and an outdoor environmental education area. Students received basic design and engineering instruction at a nearby university, and parents and community provided support and…

A survey was conducted of 100 Ohio school library media specialists (79% return) to determine where they received their technology training. Years of experience ranged from 1 to 32 with and average of 16 years. Results indicate that 85% of training has occurred after employment; and 8 figures display the survey results. (AEF)

Outdoor education can play a vital role in developing the understanding, skills, and attitudes needed to encourage a more sustainable lifestyle for the coming century. Direct experiences with nature engage the whole person, develop a feeling of kinship with the Earth, encourage alternatives to mechanistic thinking and materialistic values, and…

Summarizes responses of outdoor education practitioners and students to questionnaires covering the relationship between perceived risk taking and the learning process; the extent to which teachers encourage risk taking; the importance of experiential education; and interactions among fear, coping, and self-concept that affect learning. Describes…

Investigated whether audiotape construction would affect preservice teachers' mastery and retention of important terms and socialization to technology. Experimental students collectively created audiotape scripts for learning terms. Control students received lectures and text. Experimental students expressed confidence and competence in using…

Interprets the outdoor-education learning process from viewpoint of pragmatist and cognitive conceptions of action, thinking, and knowledge as ways of structuring reality. Views outdoor education as socially organized, intentional activity aimed at student-environment interaction. Presents a model of outdoor learning involving goal-oriented…

The Highland School, located in the remote hills of West Virginia, is modeled on John Dewey's ideas. This laboratory school promotes experiential learning and believes that interaction between children, teachers, and the environment is the key to learning. The article describes the schools' founding and the philosophy behind it. (SM)

Maintains that gathering and analyzing data about the nature and scope of violence is an important step in designing meaningful safe-schools projects. Presents a safe-schools survey lesson plan designed for secondary schools. Includes lesson objectives, step-by-step instructional procedures, and sample student survey questions. (CFR)