SITE 1995--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference
1995
Editors
Jerry Willis; Bernard Robin; Dee Anna Willis
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 227
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Dedication to Mary Milo Planow
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Empowerment: Media Literacy Through the Precepts of a Global Multicultural Curriculum
Joanne Bodin, University of New Mexico
In this age of electronic learning, as advances in technology make possible global mass communication, a new literacy or new “illiteracy” as it has also been called (Aronowitz as cited in Giroux... More
pp. 3-7
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Computer Use in an Elementary Multicultural Classroom
InØs MÆrquez Chisholm, Arizona State University West
How teachers manage, supplement, and use classroom computers greatly determines what and how children learn with technology. Academic and personal success in the information age largely depends on ... More
pp. 8-12
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Multimedia Multicultural Instruction: Exploring Diversity with a Non- Diverse Student Population
Susan E. Anderson, Texas Christian University
One of the current challenges facing teacher education programs is preparing preservice teachers to integrate technology into instruction. The typical lack of technology integration in the teacher ... More
pp. 13-17
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Building Bridges: TESOL and Technology
Ana Huerta-Macias, New Mexico State University
Technology is an area that permeates our lives; yet its potential for educational use has not yet been tapped — particularly as it relates to meeting the needs of second language learners. Hunt and... More
pp. 18-22
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A Model for International Education and Cooperation
Patrick J. Casey, University of Hartford
The rapid development of computer technology and its introduction into the process of schooling has caused great concern among educational leaders, particularly in third world and developing... More
pp. 23-25
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Use of A Distance Training Program for Teachers of Mexican Indian Languages
Harold Ormsby, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog(cid:237)a Social (CIESAS), MØxico
The program outlined here is expected to begin experimentally during 1995. Most of the program will be given at a distance with heavy reliance on e-mail and other sorts of telecommunications,... More
pp. 26-29
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An English Course by and for Telecommunications
Patricia Castillo-Schwartz, National Autonomous University of MØxico
A one-year course is being developed and piloted by the Academic Computing Center of the National Autono- More
pp. 30-31
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Creating a Space for Interactive Education: The Iberoamerican Association of Educational Television
Isabell Kempf, UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
In 1991 the Government of Spain invited the Iberoamerican Ministers of Education to use the satellite HISPASAT, launched by Spain, to create a system of distance education. Within this framework... More
pp. 32-36
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Multimedia Resources for Teaching Education: An Internationally Transferable Resource?
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The University of Exeter in England is developing multimedia resources for student teachers to enhance and improve courses for large numbers across the UK. Now, half way through this three year... More
pp. 37-39
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Teaching Teachers to Change: The Place of Change Theory in the Technology Education of Teachers
Brent Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK
Goals, in the absence of a theory about how to achieve them, are mere wishful thinking. (Wise 1977) More
pp. 40-44
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Comparing Attitudes Toward Computers of Polish and American Prospective Teachers
Stanislaw Ubermanowicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
The work presented here is a second report from a longrange project on studying students’ attitudes toward computers. The project started from our skepticism of the wide-spread belief that... More
pp. 45-48
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Training Students in Russia to Teach Mathematics with Information Technologies
Mikhail M. Bouniaev, Southern Utah University and Moscow Pedagogical State University
The system of training future math teachers in Russia, as well as in the former Soviet Union, has been in a state of transformation, innovation and adjustment during the last 25 years. However,... More
pp. 49-52
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China: Impressions and Continuing Connections
Nancy P. Hunt, California State University, Fresno
Great effort is being expended to make China a major world power in the next century. The tremendous building boom in Beijing and other major cities is unprecedented in all of China’s history. Her ... More
pp. 53-56
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Development and Dissemination of the First Major CMI System for Chinese Schools
Julie Qiu Bao, Shippensburg University
As we are racing along the Information Super Highway and becoming fascinated by the increasingly amazing educational software, has one ever wondered how this wonderful, yet expensive, technology... More
pp. 57-60
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Computer Attitudes among Preservice Teachers
Yuen-kuang Liao, National Hsinchu Teachers, Taiwan
pp. 61-65
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Experiences in the Development, Dissemination & Use of Computer Based Materials in India
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Training methods and media change with successive developments in technology. Each new technique which thus emerges competes for the attention of training managers, teachers, and learners. The most... More
pp. 66-68
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Technology, Problem Solving and Gender Issues: A Focus For Teacher Change
Sonja Kung, U. of Wisconsin Stevens Point
As computers become a part of our society, more emphasis is placed on their use in schools. With the incorporation of reform documents oriented toward the 21st century (i.e., NCTM Curriculum and... More
pp. 69-72
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Observation and Analysis of Mathematics Students Using Computer Technology
Pamela T. Barber-Freeman, Mississippi State University
Perhaps the most evaded of all topics in schools is the issue of gender... As girls mature they confront a culture that both idealizes and exploits the sexuality of young women while assigning them... More
pp. 73-74
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Technology and Civic Education: New Directions - New Issues
Richard A. Diem, The University of Texas at San Antonio
The United States is in the midst of a revolution as powerful as any movement in human history. This revolution, which could best be called the “mental communications revolution”, is being brought ... More
pp. 76-77
