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Learning & Leading with Technology

Learning & Leading with Technology

Summer 2000

Read and respond to smart tips for using technology in the classroom. Also get more information about the LEGO software reviewed in the May 2000 issue of L&L. L&L does not publish a print magazine during the summer. Watch for the September issue, scheduled to mail August 22.

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Smart Tips

    Design Students Create Caring Toys
      by Rose Reissman


    Students often are met with objections from caregivers when they ask for a new toy. Help them design toys that their caregivers will approve. Students can even send redesign ideas to toy manufacturers. Note: ISTE member item. Please have your member number handy.
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    About Face: Photo and Portrait Play
      by Rose Reissman


    Nonlinguistic writing prompts can engage students with nontextual learning styles in literacy and information skills. Note: ISTE member item. Please have your member number handy.
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    “Someone’s in the Kitchen With”: Multimedia and Desktop Published Kitchen Stories
      by Rose Reissman


    In this era of fast food restaurants and dinners out, we often overlook the power of the kitchen in our lives. Rose provides activities that help students focus on the power of the family. Note: ISTE member item. Please have your member number handy.
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    Telecommunications SAGES: Spontaneous Acts of Goodness E-mail Storytellers
      by Rose Reissman


    Climates of hatred, intolerance, and violence have devastated many communities. Technology can help address these problems, and it can be a vehicle for citizenship education. Note: ISTE member item. Please have your member number handy.
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    Toy Talk
      by Rose Reissman


    This activity combines toys with technology to teach students multiple literacy competencies, including writing, reporting, reflecting, and responding. Note: ISTE member item. Please have your member number handy.
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    Rose Reissman will be submitting more Smart Tips in the future. Visit the Web site often to find them.


Software

    ROBOLABTM and MINDSTORMSTM Follow-Up
      by Judi Mathis Johnson


    Find out more information about LEGO ROBOLAB and MINDSTORMS. The Background information Judi received in response to the May 2000 review helps clarify the differences between the commercial and education versions. Note: ISTE member item. Please have your member number handy.
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Letters to the Editor

    Letters


    L&L welcomes your feedback. See reader responses to Eva Marie Bowen’s article “Research, Analysis, Communication: Meeting Standards with Technology” (May 2000).
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Coming Soon

L&L welcomes your feedback. See reader responses to Eva Marie Bowen’s article “Research, Analysis, Communication: Meeting Standards with Technology” (May 2000).
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