Describes the National Writing Project's Technology Network. Outlines two specific national efforts of this network: (1) the National Writing Project/Polaroid Education Program Pilot Project, and (2) America's Smartest Home Videos. (HB)

Examined who would benefit from computerized career counseling. Clients (n=54) who came to Career Planning and Placement Center seeking career assistance were referred to System for Interactive Guidance and Information PLUS (SIGI-PLUS). Clients with more stable goals had greatest gain in vocational identity. Clients who showed more defensive…

Huge infusion of technology is coming into education; nothing can stop it, because so much money is involved. With computer marketers in driver seat instead of teachers, schools risk being blinded by science. Vendors have coopted progressive education buzzwords, including "frontal teaching,""linear thinking," and "computer…

A New Jersey school board supplied computer work stations and extensive educational technology to each elementary school classroom. Explains strategies to finance the technology and train both teachers and parents. Cites "Report on the Effectiveness of Technology in Schools, 1990-92," by the Interactive Educational Systems Design. (MLF)

The 1990s will usher in increasingly sophisticated interactive multimedia technologies leading to widespread employment of virtual reality. The arts (visual, music, drama, dance, and creative writing) are intimately involved with instructional technology's future. The arts provide both adult (commercial) creators and contributors to the programs…

Discusses Group Support Systems (GSS) and their impact on the effectiveness of group decision making. Explains how this technology provides expanded and enriched experiences beyond routine group arrangements. Reviews selected groupware packages. (JOW)

Presents the history and background for the use of computers in medical education at the Norris Medical School at the University of Southern California. Describes the current computer facilities and how computer-based learning is incorporated into the curriculum. (PR)

Discusses the growing importance of electronic mail among academicians. Offers a rhetoric and a pedagogy that include electronic mail in their fields of vision. Argues that writing instructors should continue to do research into the issues inherent in electronic mail. (HB)

Discusses the use of the Internet in educational settings and studies four students using the Internet to obtain data for a regularly assigned eighth-grade mathematics project for five weeks. Uses questionnaires and interviews to collect data. Concludes that students need adequate preparation to achieve optimal benefit from using the Internet.…

Presents the Weather Lab, a computer-based tool for assessing student knowledge and understanding of weather phenomena by involving students in generating weather forecasts or manipulating weather components affecting the final formulation of a forecast. Contains 37 references. (Author/ASK)

Considers how the World Wide Web is used by mathematics educators and describes a multiphase teaching experiment designed to determine if the World Wide Web is a viable means of accessing course materials. Discusses the resources involved in supporting such access. (DDR)

Argues that the Internet and World Wide Web are convenient mechanisms for providing students in world regional geography courses with up-to-date information. Describes how Web technology can be used to set up an electronic reserve library with links to Web sites and materials related to the specific course content. (DSK)

Mindtools are computer applications that, when used by learners to represent what they know, engage them in critical thinking. This article discusses computers as semantic organization (databases and semantic networking), dynamic modeling (spreadsheets, expert systems, systems modeling, microworlds), information interpretation, knowledge…

Discusses a method of teaching math students to conquer their math anxiety. Describes a student assignment to write metaphors describing their frustrations with mathematics. Outlines a method of converting the students' metaphors into poems by programming a computer to select words by scanning a list of metaphors to generate a poem. (CR)

Presents ways to improve the accuracy of approximations of logarithms in a college-algebra course. (Author/ASK)