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Barbosa, Vania Soares; Lima, Vera; Silva, Rejane; Silva, Willy; Soares, Ana Carolina; de Sousa, Aline – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
This quantitative and qualitative study is aimed to diagnose and promote the use of new technologies in teaching literature reading in Public (State) Schools, assessing materials accessibility and computer skills. The research consisted of three distinct steps: (1) A survey to detect teachers' and students' computer skills, their use of computers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Reading Motivation, Teaching Methods
Howard, Katrena C.; And Others – 1992
A study investigated the effectiveness of the Writing Express program (similar to the "Writing to Read" program, but with the distinction that students write in their second-grade classrooms and follow thematic maps integrated into the regular classroom curriculum). All 895 second-grade students in six Writing Express schools and 6…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Grade 2, Language Arts, Primary Education
McMahon, Teresa A.; Duffy, Thomas M. – 1993
This paper examines themes from a cross case analysis of the Buddy System Project, a program that loans students and teachers in selected elementary classes in Indiana a networked home computer and provides schools with additional classroom computers. Qualitative data were collected from 28 homes and 19 classrooms at 4 participating schools. The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Elementary Education
Neufeld, Helen H. – 1982
Given the state of the art of computing in 1982, it is not necessary to know a computer language to use a computer. Three aspects of the current state of computing make it mandatory that educators from elementary through postsecondary levels rapidly incorporate this skill into the curriculum: (1) computers have permeated society--they are used in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computers, Educational Change
Heger, Herbert K.; Ainsa, Trisha – 1992
This paper presents an assessment of teacher training models in a multi-year (1984-1989) early childhood computer literacy program conducted in a bilingual setting. The project was known by the acronym CLIC and focused on the needs of poor Hispanic children in the El Paso (Texas) urban school district. Although CLIC was a computer literacy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Willis, Elizabeth – 1998
This paper describes "Methods of Integrating Technology in the Elementary Social Studies/Language Arts Classroom," a class at Northern Arizona State University with the purpose of assisting preservice teacher candidates in developing an understanding and appreciation of the many perspectives of the social studies, language acquisition in…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Course Evaluation