Topics Computer Education For Elementary And Secondary Schools

The first of 18 papers in this collection is a committee report of a workshop held in Kansas City, Missouri, June 26-27, 1982, to consider instructional uses of computers in pre-college education and what colleges of education should be doing. In "Computer Education and Colleges of Education," J. Philip East provides an overview of the issues involved. Papers submitted by workshop participants prior to the meeting are then presented: "Computer Literate Teachers--a Possible Dream" (James E. Beamer); "Computer Education at Arizona State University" (Gary Bitter); "Computer Related Teaching and Research in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary: Achievements, Present Developments and Predictions for the Future" (Ann Brebner); "Graduate Degree Programs in Computer Education for Elementary and Secondary Teachers" (Robert L. Burke); "Computers and Teacher Education: From Cow Trail to Expressway" (George H. Culp); "Computers in the College of Education, University of Illinois" (J. Richard Dennis and Esther Steinberg); "Computer Education for Elementary Schools: A Course for Teachers" (J. Philip East); "The Challenge of Computer Education to Teacher Education--An Australian Perspective" (Graham Ferres); "Computing and Education at the University of Maryland" (James T. Fey and Linda P. Rosen); "An Undergraduate Minor and Graduate Program in Computers in Education" (Susan Friel and Nancy Roberts); "Implementing a Program to Train (Retrain) Secondary Teachers--A Cooperative Effort between Education and Computer Science at Towson State University" (Doris Keefe Lidtke); "Computerizing the Teacher at North Texas State University" (James L. Poirot and James J. Muro); "Computers in Education at the University of Colorado--Boulder" (Marc Swadener); "Computing and Education at Teachers College" (Robert P. Taylor); "Teacher-Education Curriculum for the 80's" (Barbara B. Wright and Richard C. Forcier); and "Computers for Teachers: Activities at the University of Michigan School of Education" (Karl L. Zinn and Carl F. Berger). (LMM)

Published in the year 1985, The Electronic Schoolhouse is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.

Advances in Computers

This volume integrates research findings from three multinational studies conducted to examine the impact of children's use of computers in school. Conclusions are drawn from in-depth analyses of trends in more than 20 nations. Its seven authors from four nations were key researchers on these projects. Both a study and a product of the information age, this work is of prime importance to teachers, teacher educators, and school administrators. This work is unique in three important ways: * it presents data gathered in many regions of the world; * many of the authors are well-known and respected for their previous work in educational studies; and * the chapters are designed in such a way that the majority of the book is easily accessible to professionals such as classroom teachers who are interested primarily in findings, results, and outcomes rather than the methodology of the research.

This book presents some of the results from the second stage of lEA's study of Computers in Education (CompEd). lEA, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, conducts international comparative studies focussing on educational achievement, practices, and policies in various countries and education systems around the world. It has a Secretariat located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. lEA studies have reported on a wide range of topics, each contributing to a deeper understanding of educational processes. The CompEd study is a project that sheds light on the way computers have been introduced in education and on how they are being used across the world today. The study proceeded in two stages with data collected for stage 1 in 1989 and for stage 2 in 1992. Results from both stages have been published in a variety of publications. This book reports about a special part of the study. Student achievement and school processes come into being in the context of the structure and the policies of national (or regional) education systems. The variety found in the CompEd results led us to ask how much might be explained by differences in these national or regional contexts. That is the reason the CompEd study took the initiative to invite the countries participating in the study, as well as some other countries that have had interesting developments in the domain of educational computers, to write a chapter describing their policies and practices regarding computers in education.

SUMMARY: An introduction to computers, computer programs and programming, educational programs, and hoe computers may be used in the classroom.