Describes the process of building electronic communities using the AT&T Long Distance Learning Network that enables groups of teachers and learners to work collaboratively in a global context on topics that are part of their curriculum. (MG)

This article pursues two ends: to describe, evaluate, and compare various methodologies and strategies available for evaluating learning technologies, and to illustrate several key strategies. Evaluation methods include surveys, interviews, observations, activity measures, and combinations of these. Examples include Educom Survey, Carnegie Mellon…

Reviewed is a book, "Mathematics Education and Culture," which was a special issue of this journal in 1988. Questioned are some of the current tenets about the meaning and significance of the concept "culture" for a theory of mathematics education. Calls for an open scientific debate, unfettered by moral and ideological prejudices and fashionable…

Examines some of the opinions and recommendations expressed in the current literature regarding changes computing technology may bring to the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Discusses the views of educators, the stances taken by professional groups, and a look to the future. (26 references) (YP)

Provides a BASIC program to compute the number of shuffles required for packs containing even numbers of cards up to 100. Lists 4 further questions on the shuffling program. (YP)

Describes an activity for primary school students, combining writing with computer-art quilt-making. Provides a bibliography of quilt books. (MM)

This article focuses on technology applications that can be used by very young children with disabilities. Described are tools for learning, recreation, and living; skills necessary for technology use; methods of integrating toys and switches into the curriculum; technology for augmentative communication; and adapting microcomputers for use by…

The computer's potential in second language teaching is compared with the reality of commercial programs and teacher training in an effort to separate beliefs from facts. It is concluded that based on recent developments, the computer is about to occupy its rightful place in language teaching. (Author/MSE)

Explains Ulster County Community College's efforts to ensure that microcomputer resources were allocated so that the greatest number of students could have access to the greatest number of microcomputers for the longest periods of time. Describes the use of a systems approach to develop a conceptual overview of the college's academic computing…

Presents a method for using matrix algebra and computers to encode and decode secret messages. Provides examples of coding procedures, a short review of matrix multiplication, and a BASIC program for use with secret messages containing up to 1000 numbers. (RT)

Consists of ideas from seven teachers about how to use computers in education. Topics covered include (1) using desktop publishing to create advertisements, (2) submitting articles to journals in machine-readable format, and (3) using telecommunications to search for resources from the office. (CH)

Nearly every discipline in the humanities appears to have been touched by computers is the consensus from a conference on computers and the humanities held in Toronto. Computerized concordances, studies on language evolution, identifying archaeological finds, video images and audio in databases are discussed. (MLW)

The University of South Carolina's College of Education offers a "Microcomputers and the Curriculum" course which critically examines issues relating to classroom use of the microcomputer, including current curriculum efforts, appropriate uses of microcomputers, and the effect of social and ideological influences on the use of…

Recommends a variant of desktop publishing for classroom publishing of newsletters, school newspapers, and class-compiled and individually authored books, taking writing beyond traditional classroom contexts with teacher as sole audience. Promotes cut-and-paste production using whatever computers and software are available as expedient and…

Inspired by Lewis Perelman's vision, this article summarizes needed transformative changes, such as preparing teachers for new technologies, committing additional human and financial resources, educating the public, establishing a business/education partnership, restructuring the curriculum, obtaining federal assistance, and evaluating what works…