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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 Whatever else defines the truly computer-literate educator, he or she must be critically aware of the message that most educational software currently available is not worth the medium it is recorded...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Handwriting is a skill very similar to playing tennis or Space Invaders. It is complex and strategies need to be learnt if you want to do it well. But for fun, learning handwriting the conventional...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Is interactive television the latest high-tech white elephant, or can it become a valuable educational technology for schools? Answers from research into the implementation process of interactive...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article