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Edited by
Dr. David J. Ayersman, Mary Washington College, and Dr. W.
Michael Reed,
New York University
Incoming editor: Dr. Lynne Schrum, University of Georgia
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| formerly Journal of Research on Computing in
Education |
Volume 34 Number
3 Spring 2002
Modular Programming:
Novice Misconceptions
Sandra Madison and James Gifford
Madison and Gifford explore how student
misconceptions affect
student-created programs and how such
misconceptions can
go unnoticed by instructors.
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Exploring
Technology Integration in a Field-Based Teacher
Education
Program: Implementation Efforts and
Findings
Sharla L. Snider
In this project designed to help integrate
technology into
preservice education, mentor teachers and
university instructors
work with preservice teachers to ensure that they
have the
skills not only to use technology but also to
integrate
it into their K–12 teaching after they
graduate.
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more...
A
Look at
the Research on Computer-Based Technology Use in
Second
Language Learning: A Review of the Literature from
1990–2000
Min Liu, Zena Moore, Leah Graham, and Shinwoong
Lee
Liu and colleagues review the literature to find
what worked
and what didn't in technology used for language
instruction.
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more...
Children’s
Hypertext Navigation Strategies
Kimberly A. Lawless, Robert Mills, and Scott W.
Brown
Lawless, Mills, and Brown compared children's
navigation
strategies with those of adults to find
similarities and
differences that could help designers of
educational hypertexts
create better products.
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more...
Educational
Computing Concerns of Postsecondary
Faculty
Nan B. Adams
Adams uses Hall and colleagues Concenrs-Based
Adoption Model
and Rogers's work on diffusion of innovations to
help understand
how technology becomes integrated into
postsecondary education
and which college faculty members will be most
likely to
use technology in their teaching.
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more...
Using Parent–Student
Pairs for Internet Instruction
Micki M. Caskey
Caskey studied the differences in student and
adult learning
when paretns and students were taught to use the
Internet
together and seprately. Students seemed to learn
the same
in both treatments, but parents seemd more
comfortable with
their and their children's Internet use when they
learned
alongside their children.
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more...
Minimum Technical
Competencies for Distance Learning
Students
Elizabeth Reed Osika and Douglas P.
Sharp
Osika and Sharp compared students' technology
skills with
faculty expectations of students in their distance
learning
courses. Students did not fulfill many of the
nasic requirements,
such as formatting a disk or sending and receiving
e-mail
attachments. The 15 minimum skills required for
distance
learning students can be used by other
institutions to help
assess and improve their students' skills.
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more...
Educators
and Technology Standards: Influencing the Digital
Divide
Colleen Swain and Tamara Pearson
This literature review captures themes that need
to be addressed
regarding the Digital Divide and proposes ways
educational
standards can help.
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more...
An
Investigation
of Cognitive Processes Engaged in by Recreational
Computer
Game Players: Implications for Skills of the
Future
Hitendra Pillay
Pillay explores the level of transfer of computer
skill
from recreational computer games to educational
software.
He finds that transfer occurs when the skills
required by
the recreational games match the skills required
by the
educational software.
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more...
What’s
in a Web Site? Student Perceptions
Christian Sebastian Loh and Michael D.
Williams
Loh and Williams examine the effects of motivation
in Web
site design and discuss their Motivation Analysis
Rating
Kit (M@ARK).
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more...
Understanding
the Dimensions of Self-Exploration in Web-Based
Learning
Environments
Lih-Ching Chen Wang and Joshua Gisemba
Bagaka’s
Wang and Bagaka's explored differences in
self-exploration
of the Web based on gender and whether the user ws
a native
English speaker. The goal was to provide guidance
to Web
designers in creating gender-neutral sites that
appealed
to native and nonnative English speakers.
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more...
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