Integrating Technology in the Elementary School Classroom
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This 5 page report discusses the importance of introducing technology in the youngest of students’ classrooms and not waiting until they are pre-teens or teenagers to introduce them to computers and computer capabilities. It is absolutely essential that the young students of the 21st century learn about computers and how to use them at an early age. By the time they graduate from high school, computers will have moved beyond commonplace to being as necessary to modern life as indoor plumbing and electric lights. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Interactive Data Visualization
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A 5 page paper that begins by explaining data visualization and commenting on the development of more sophisticated techniques for analyzing large amounts of data. The writer also comments on the use of interactive data visualization techniques in computer education and in education per se. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Interactive Multimedia in Educational Software
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A 5 page paper discussing the benefits of interactive multimedia for expanding education. The paper reviews several goals of general education, including factors such as modeling, coaching, explaining, correcting and others, and reviews how interactive multimedia can meet those requirements. The paper concludes that the greater uniformity of the interactive multimedia approach results in the potential for greater customization of process according to learner characteristics and needs. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Interactive Multimedia-Based Educational Software
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This 5 page paper considers what is necessary to develop interactive multimedia educational software, which elements are important and why, and the way that the software may be developed. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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Learning Keyboarding Skills At The Third Grade Level: Does It Help Improve Technological Skills Later On In School?
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7 pages in length. There is little question that learning keyboarding skills at the third grade level does, indeed, help improve technological skills later on in school. Part of the challenge of acquiring a good, sound education is getting the student interested in the lesson plan; while some are inherently good students, others require the extra added incentive that computer access offers. However, the child's interaction with the computer is only as effective as his keyboarding skills, which, as studies have begun to note, are just as essential as is understanding the programs. The writer discusses how learning keyboarding in the third grade helps to improve technological skills later on in school. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Logo Programming Language
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An 8 page paper discussing the language accessible to children but not limited in its applicability to more complicated projects. More than 30 years old, Logo is widely used today in developing nations as well as the US and continues to gain the increased attention of those committed to constructivist learning. Constructivism does not mean that children are not required to learn rules of convention or natural law, only that they are not limited in their abilities to apply those rules. Logo was valuable in its early years, but it appears to be of even greater consequence in today's learning environment. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Online Classes
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A 6 page paper discussing the evolution of distance learning as it has been altered by the advent of the Internet. Online classes began as special-interest adventures offered for no academic credit, but now there are Internet-only schools and many mainstream universities offer extensive possibilities. Distance learning has existed for more than a century in various forms, but the Internet offers possibilities never known before. One of these possibilities is Duke's MBA program that requires 5 weeks on campus, but also requires 2 weeks each in Germany, Brazil and China. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Principles of Learning and Computer Use
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This 5 page report discusses the most fundamental principles of learning have proven themselves to apply in learning to use a computer and that those principles are also important when basic and simplistic concepts are being presented as well as applications that require a greater degree of both information and understanding. Learning and training needs must also be considered and balanced in terms of affective, cognitive, and psychomotor domains to result in the most effective and sustainable degrees of understanding and application for the individual student. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Project Based Learning
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A 12 page paper that provides a general overview of project based learning. The writer then focuses on three issues – how project based learning enhances student motivation and problem solving skills and how technology enhances project based learning approaches. Research that illustrates the success and effectiveness of this approach to learning is reported. Examples of projects are also included. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Public Elementary Schools: Relationship Between Facilities and Achievement
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A 5 page paper which examines the relationship between school facilities and student achievement in public elementary schools. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Reading and Technology in Elementary Schools
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5 pages. Teaching children to read in the elementary classroom is not like it used to be. Today's children are fortunate to have the use of technology in learning their reading skills. The use of computers in the classroom keeps a child's attention span and makes learning to read more fun and exciting. This paper explains why and how technology helps children learn to read in the classrooms of today. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Reading Software Programs in the Classroom
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This is a 4 page paper discussing reading software programs for use in the classroom. Review studies and recommended programs are included in the paper. Within the last several years, software learning programs have gradually been introduced into school curriculums to aid teachers in meeting the educational requirements of students. Since the introduction of reading software intended for classroom use, many school systems have taken it upon themselves to review the available products and integrate those with the highest ratings into the classrooms. Reading software programs are available from a variety of sources but today most have been reviewed based on curriculum needs and many have received high marks in the classrooms from the educators and the students and in addition to providing a new approach to curriculum requirements, students also learn to become comfortable with the new technology. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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