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Conference on Teaching Excellence

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February 1999 | Volume 56 | Number 5

Integrating Technology into the Curriculum


Feature Articles

Educating the Net Generation

Don Tapscott

Students are thriving on the Internet—creating Web sites, doing research, managing money, making friends. How can teachers respond to the new way kids like to learn?

A Practitioner's Guide to Snaring the Net

Al Doyle

An expert teacher tells how to prepare Internet-based lesson plans for multi-technology and interdisciplinary classrooms.

Curriculum Connections

“Site Reading” the World Wide Web

Larry Lewin

With a little help from the teacher, the Web's remarkable primary source material entices students to read for deeper meaning and to improve other reading skills.

Not Your Typical Math Class

Hollylynne Stohl Drier, Kara M. Dawson and Joe Garofalo

Current and archived data—from birth rate statistics to interest rates to smoking and mortality correlations—make previously inaccessible topics fascinating to kids.

National Educational Technology Standards

Lajeane G. Thomas and Donald G. Knezek

The NETS project profiles the skills that students at every level need for technological literacy.

Apples and Arias in the Language Lab

Patricia Leamon

From nursery rhymes to opera, all things French come alive through audiovisual technology.

Technology Is for Everyone

Joyce A. Burtch

Special-needs kids hook up with keypals to share stories of "a day in my life."

Achieving Equity

All About the E-Rate

Mickey Revenaugh

A basic primer for educators tells how and why to apply for the E-rate.

A Tale of Two Schools

Raymond P. Farley

When a technologically proficient school shares training with its urban counterpart, it jumpstarts a struggling district and bridges an economic divide.

Gender Equity in Cyberspace

Janice Weinman and Pamela Haag

If you are wondering whether a gender gap still exists, ask boys and girls how they envision the "perfect computer" for the future.

Media Literacy

Skills and Strategies for Media Education

Elizabeth Thoman

The founder of the Center for Media Literacy outlines what to look for in—and how to question—media messages.

Teaching the Humanities in a Media Age

Renee Hobbs

The Re-Visioning Project helps high school teachers analyze how language, visual images, editing, and composition can affect our interpretation of ideas.

Video Technology

Animated Learning

Alisa Algava

Fourth graders traverse the social science curriculum as they create their own animated movie about the U.S. national parks.

Bringing Cable into the Classroom

Donelle Blubaugh

Are televisions in the classroom creating a new generation of couch potatoes, or can they inspire active learning?

Picture-Perfect Communication

Rhonda Clevenson

Student-produced videotapes replace more traditional forms of take-home information at this innovative middle school.

The Children's Charter

Meg Kiernan

A 7th grader asks, How can we make children's TV better?

Lessons Learned

An Action Plan for Smart Internet Use

Jim Teicher

Manners and ethics—and precautions—for the Internet age.

Lessons from Sisyphus in a Technological Age

Geoff Roberts

How to avoid being RAMmed on the Information Highway.

Exploring Alternatives to Hype

Peter Zelchenko

Do students really need the fastest, newest, most expensive technology? This author says no.

How Technology Can Transform a School

John G. Conyers, Toni Kappel and Joanne Rooney

A school staff shares how it revamped its culture and curriculum to take advantage of the positive effects technology can have on student learning.

Departments

Web Wonders

Betsy Kelaher

Portfolio

Joan Montgomery Halford




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