Technology in the Language Arts Classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?.

Lee, Gretchen

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ERIC Number: EJ603191

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Publication Date: 2000

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Technology in the Language Arts Classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?

Lee, Gretchen

Voices from the Middle, v7 n3 p24-32 Mar 2000

Suggests the authentic audience found on the Internet has a profound effect on the quality of student writing in all grades, and that the key to successful technology projects is integrating them into the curriculum so that computers are a means, not an end. Offers ideas for classroom activities and projects using stand-alone computers, and using computers with Internet access. (SR)

Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, English Instruction, Intermediate Grades, Internet, Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Middle Schools, Student Attitudes, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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