Proposes that collaborative, constructivist, and problem-based learning are powerful conceptual antidotes to pedagogy as transmission and knowledge as parceled facts and objects. Notes that as more texts become available in digital form, users access information in different ways that have profound ramifications for reading and writing. Contends…

Proposes that reading researchers and teachers must acknowledge that contemporary new readers have no other way of learning about reading except within the context of a background of vast textual experience across many media and through multiple forms of address. Suggests educators need to take a broad view of the complex context in which texts…

Presents an interview with Roxie Ahlbrecht, a second-grade teacher at Robert Frost Elementary School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Discusses technology and writing. Details how Internet projects support literacy. (PM)

The Center for Technology and Teacher Education at the University of Virginia developed "Kids an Cookies" a free Flash-based materials and software applications to help prepare teachers to use technology to enhance and extend their students' learning of school subjects. Presents the mathematics team set of guidelines to shape the…

Examines the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICT) influence teaching and learning in five Australian elementary and secondary schools. Describes studies where ICT was the key enabler of the learning program, and other studies which focused on an entire school's approach to ICT as an agent for changed approaches to…

Discussion of difficulties that teachers have in effectively using technology focuses on a study of prekindergarten through secondary school teachers that analyzed their concerns toward the use of instructional technology using the Stages of Concern Questionnaire. Results indicated that personal concerns and personal consequences were the most…

Discusses the growth of educational institutions and the need for new paradigms of learning to keep pace with change. Topics include context; communication; the use and adoption of different technologies; shared knowledge; and the personal nature of the learning experience. (LRW)

Discusses educational technology in light of the recommendations by the Expert Panel on Educational Technology. Topics include overcoming basic cultural features of elementary and secondary education that will work against designing effective educational technology programs; and improving learning from the learner's perspective, rather than doing…

Presents a model and an underlying process for selecting technology mediated teaching strategies. Discusses the use of the Internet in the learning process; computer-mediated communication; educational appropriateness of technology adoption; technology integration; learning principles for the model; and how to implement the model. (Author/LRW)

Notes that "women's web sites" are absent from discussions of rhetoric and electronic communication though these sites accumulate a significant number of the hours women log online. Argues that it is important to recognize the exchange and creation of knowledge by and for women through women's online resource venues. Offers productive ways of…

Reports results from a survey of psychology faculty that found that respondents generally held favorable attitudes toward the Internet and incorporated online technology for instructional purposes. Indicated that the primary drawbacks of Internet-based instruction were the time requirements involved and a lack of formal faculty training.…

Discussion of the use of Internet technologies to support educational programs focuses on experiences at the University of Louisville in using bulletin boards, online multimedia lectures, and online chat and instant messaging for management education. Includes guidelines for others who are considering the use of these technologies. (Author/LRW)

This article presents results of a survey conducted in the spring of 2004 of practicing teachers in K-12 schools in Santa Clara County, California, also known as "Silicon Valley." Exposure to technology in teaching preparation programs, knowledge of software applications, and constructivist beliefs were found to be positively related to…

How can technology in education affect the workforce and economic development? What kind of leadership will it take to align learning and technology in the 21st century? Can we bridge the gap between education reform, technology, and No Child Left Behind requirements simultaneously? The answers to these and many other related questions were…

There was a time when being a teacher at Lenawee Intermediate School District (MI) meant getting in line--a long line--if a teacher wished to get hold of audiovisual equipment for the class. Teachers had to reserve the equipment weeks in advance. Next, once the time came to use it, representatives from the district's A/V department had to quite…