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School computers can now provide very versatile and exciting ways for children to present cross-subject 'projects'. The learning, and what the teachers learnt too, was researched.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Two classroom research projects used co-operative learning to encourage cognitive progress. This meant, almost paradoxically, using conflict, and its subsequent resolution, to teach...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The school asked two 13-year-olds, expert in a computer programme, to teach the skills to two 16-year-olds. The researcher watched and asked questions. The result is a lively story and good advice...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The computer has turned us all into typographers - the arrangers of print and graphic material. Here is advice, based on research into legibility, on how to make it easy for learners...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The exploratory studies in Educational Computing (ESEC) are nominally 15 studies, (actually 19) set up at the request of, and funded by, the Department of Education.
The studies were originated in a...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Computer programs are not a magic remedy for dyslexia. But they can be a very worthwhile teaching aid when you need many ways of reinforcing each teaching point. In this way the computer can add a...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In 1985, I had the opportunity to visit, across four states of Australia, twenty primary schools interested in using computers as part of the school curriculum. In eighteen of these schools the...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article is not intended to be a series of handy hints on choosing between specific brands of microcomputers or different word processing programs. That sort of information is best obtained from...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The comment that predicting the future is hazardous (as any gambler knows) has been made so often that it is trite. Yet there is a need to look at the possible social outcomes of particular policies...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
For the past five years or more, there has been a growing amount of publicity generated about the use of the microcomputer - the so-called 'personal' computer - in the classrooms of America. Thanks...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article