Using Multimedia with Navajo Children: An Effort to Alleviate Problems of Cultural Learning Style, Background of Experience, and Motivation.

Smith, Kenneth J.

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ERIC Number: EJ465125

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Publication Date: 1992

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Using Multimedia with Navajo Children: An Effort to Alleviate Problems of Cultural Learning Style, Background of Experience, and Motivation.

Smith, Kenneth J.

Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, v8 n3 p287-94 Jul-Sep 1992

Describes how IBM's "LinkWay" hypertext program was used in the Tuba City Boarding School (Navajo Reservation) to develop reading improvement programs and to allow students to develop their own productions. Notes that the program addresses the cooperative, noncompetitive nature of the Navajo learning style, and the problems of unfamiliar content and lack of immediate purpose. (SR)

Descriptors: Cultural Background, Elementary Education, Hypermedia, Instructional Materials, Navajo, Reading Improvement, Student Motivation

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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