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Smith, C. LeMoyne – Educational Leadership, 1988
Contends that business education, including keyboarding, accounting, word processing, and business fundamentals, will have a crucial role in preparing productive citizens in the emerging service-related economy. (TE)
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, Business Skills, Data Processing Occupations
Levin, Barbara B. – Curriculum Review, 1985
Discusses specific ways to maximize microcomputer use in elementary and secondary schools including peer tutoring, individualized feedback, cooperative and discovery learning, tournament competition, drills and practice, student developed materials, creative problem solving, creative writing, databases, keyboarding, and student software…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Databases, Discovery Learning
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Van Haalen, Teresa; Bright, George W. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1993
Describes a study of fifth graders that investigated whether types of revision and quality of writing vary for bilingual and monolingual students when using word processors as compared with paper and pencil. Topics discussed include keyboarding skills, bilingualism, and language art skills. (Contains 27 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Analysis of Variance, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis
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Yacht, Carol – Business Education Forum, 1983
Discusses the importance of proofreading skills for the word processor operator. Includes exercises. (JOW)
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Typewriting, Word Processing
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Davis, Diane; Gonzenbach, Nancy – Business Education Forum, 1986
This article is in the form of a letter from a hypothetical former student on her first job in word processing, looking back at her educational experience and how it helped her. She shares her thoughts with her instructor and comments on areas that she feels could have been emphasized more. Grammar/punctuation, proofreading,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Individual Characteristics, Program Improvement, Punctuation
Computing Teacher, 1985
This document consists primarily of a compilation of nine articles, on the use of microcomputers in language arts instruction, that have been extracted from 1983-1985 issues of the journal "The Computing Teacher". Also included are various software reviews from the same period. The articles include: "Keyboarding Skills: Elementary,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Material Evaluation
Oregon Univ., Eugene. Center for Advanced Technology in Education. – 1986
The 24 papers in these proceedings describe computer technology and its many applications to the educational process. Topics discussed include computer systems in the classroom of the future; how to evaluate a school's computer program; computer use in special education; computer science and the liberal arts; keyboarding issues; making the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Curriculum Enrichment
Coffield, Kate – 1996
This paper traces an educator's experiences with computers over a span of 20 years, and describes the computerization of and concomitant obstacles faced by the Humanities department at the American University in Cairo, Egypt (AUC). The computerization of AUC began in the 1980s, with workstations mainly in the science, math, engineering, and…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Networks, Computer Peripherals, Computer Uses in Education
MBEA Today, 1991
This packet contains five issues of "MBEA Today," the official publication of the Michigan Business Education Association, issued from September 1990 through September 1991. Articles in issue 1 include the following: "MBEA Presents Position Statements to Michigan State Board of Education" (Ann M. Remp); "Adult Education:…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Software, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Murphy, David; Kember, David – Educational Technology, 1989
Discusses the role of computer keyboard operators in typesetting complex mathematical expressions used in instructional materials, examines the role of software in producing good quality output, and describes Expressionist, software for Macintosh hardware that can be used with desktop publishing and word processing software to enter mathematical…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Processing Occupations, Desktop Publishing, Instructional Materials
Gadomski, Kenneth E. – 1986
In the proliferation of articles about using computers in the composition classroom published in the last five or ten years, few mention anything about preparing students to compose on a computer while all assert that computers do indeed help the composing process. Preparing students to compose on a computer involves three major processes:…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Editing, Higher Education
Bell, Norman T.; Warner, James W. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1986
Discusses new possibilities that computers and laser printers offer instructional technologists. Includes a brief history of printed communications, a description of new technological advances referred to as "desktop publishing," and suggests the application of this technology to instructional tasks. (TW)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Editing, Educational Technology
Lesher, Gregory W.; Moulton, Bryan J.; Rinkus, Gerard; Higginbotham, D. Jeffery – 2000
This report discusses how technical and technological advances in alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) have outstripped the ability to assess their impact on actual communication and argues that this is due in part to the lack of a consistent and reliable method to measure long-term communicative efficacy. The report proposes a…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Disabilities