Explains how two high school seniors used the Internet to conduct a poll on censorship issues. (TB)

Presents several theoretical solutions to a geometry problem involving circles and probability. Includes simulation procedures to estimate the solutions. (MKR)

Data presented in figure three of the article cited may be misleading in that the automatic scaling procedure used by the computer program that generated the histogram highlighted spikes that would look different with different histogram methods. (SLD)

Addresses how first-year students understand the influence of computers by cultural assumptions about technology. Presents three meaning perspectives on technology that students expressed based on formative experiences they have had with it. Discusses implications for how computers and composition scholars incorporate computer technology into…

Information technologies promise a revolution in education, but because of responses to the ongoing production of ever newer tools, the promise never materializes. Identifies six barriers to this revolution and notes seven strategies for advancing educational benefits gained from experience to assist campuses in technological effectiveness. (SM)

Australia has granted degrees to off-campus students for years. Presents three mistaken premises upon which much of American arguments against distance education are based: educational quality should be compared with something approximating ideal, rather than average education; distance education should closely resemble conventional education; and…

Examines pencil-and-paper graphs produced by students at the beginning of a 1-week summer teacher/student institute as well as computer-based graphs produced by those same students at the end of the institute. Initial problems with managing data sets and producing meaningful graphs disappeared quickly as students used the process of "building…

The notions of pentagonal numbers and partitions can be understood by students at the precalculus level, and should work well in a first course in programming for high school or college students. Presents opportunities to conjecture properties of partitions from a computer program. (Contains 14 references.) (Author/ASK)

With the Internet revolution in education, students are learning to think as designers and artists. The language of art must become the fourth "R," and students must become literate in this environment. The paper discusses art and the digital age and what teachers can do (rename art, hire more art teachers, and increase fourth-R literacy…

Addresses learning and teaching in the context of the new kinds of collaborative research made possible by "Romantic Circles," a distributed, networked project. Notes that many educators in the humanities would do well to continue the conversation about what is being done and what might be done on the Net. (SG)

Describes research using a pedagogic strategy developed during an exploratory work called Active Graphing in which access to spreadsheets allows graphs to be used as analytic tools within practical experiments. Identifies aspects of student interaction with the experiment itself, the data collected and the graphs, and traces the emergence of…

The first six courses of this online program successfully increased participants' knowledge and perceived preparedness to provide pharmaceutical care. This success provided the stimulus for the development of the entire online Doctor of Pharmacy program. Participants felt that the online program facilitated more active and enhanced learning and…

Students can make connections with their school, teachers, parents, and community via the Internet. This article describes one junior high school computer teacher's experiences developing a school Web site and presents the student-created, student- designed links. It emphasizes the importance of equipping students, teachers, and parents with the…

Discusses ten ways that technology is being oversold and the implications for educators at all levels. Argues that while technology is considered a useful tool, sales tactics that stir fears of being antiquated and promise instant access to information, group participation, worldwide contacts, and time and money savings are misleading. (JPB)

Presents two experiments with a multi-representational environment in which the difficulty of translating between representations was manipulated. Describes how pairs of pictorial, mathematical, or mixed pictorial and mathematical representations were used to teach children in one of three experimental aspects of computational estimation. Finds…