February 1999 | Volume 56 | Number 5
Integrating Technology into the Curriculum
Feature Articles
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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?
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Al Doyle
An expert teacher tells how to prepare Internet-based lesson plans for multi-technology and interdisciplinary classrooms.
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Curriculum Connections
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.
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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.
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Lajeane G. Thomas and Donald G. Knezek
The NETS project profiles the skills that students at every level need for technological literacy.
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Patricia Leamon
From nursery rhymes to opera, all things French come alive through audiovisual technology.
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Joyce A. Burtch
Special-needs kids hook up with keypals to share stories of "a day in my life."
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Achieving Equity
Mickey Revenaugh
A basic primer for educators tells how and why to apply for the E-rate.
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Raymond P. Farley
When a technologically proficient school shares training with its urban counterpart, it jumpstarts a struggling district and bridges an economic divide.
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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.
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Media Literacy
Elizabeth Thoman
The founder of the Center for Media Literacy outlines what to look for in—and how to question—media messages.
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Renee Hobbs
The Re-Visioning Project helps high school teachers analyze how language, visual images, editing, and composition can affect our interpretation of ideas.
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Video Technology
Alisa Algava
Fourth graders traverse the social science curriculum as they create their own animated movie about the U.S. national parks.
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Donelle Blubaugh
Are televisions in the classroom creating a new generation of couch potatoes, or can they inspire active learning?
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Rhonda Clevenson
Student-produced videotapes replace more traditional forms of take-home information at this innovative middle school.
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Meg Kiernan
A 7th grader asks, How can we make children's TV better?
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Lessons Learned
Jim Teicher
Manners and ethics—and precautions—for the Internet age.
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Geoff Roberts
How to avoid being RAMmed on the Information Highway.
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Peter Zelchenko
Do students really need the fastest, newest, most expensive technology? This author says no.
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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.
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