Integrating Information Technology into Education - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 1995 edition

Marc Notes: Title from content provider.; Access is available to the Temple Community through use of a networked computer with a Temple IP address. Table of Contents: The IFIP WG 3.1 Working Conference in Barcelona. IFIP and working group 3.1. The Generalitat de Catalunya. Words of welcome. New technologies: integration into education. The computer: ally or alien? The roles and needs of mathematics teachers using IT. An action research role for teachers. Classroom ethos and the concerns of the teacher. Using evidence about teacher development to plan systematic revolution. The reality of learners' achievements with IT in the classroom. A curriculum for teachers or for learning? The case of Cabri-geometre: learning geometry in a computer based environment. Moving schema. Developing analytical competency through informatics teaching. Integration of informatics into education. Promoting interdisciplinary and intercultural intentions through the history of informatics. Implementation of computers in Malaysian Schools: problems and successes. Interpreting internal school influences on the educational integration of IT. Factors affecting the use of computers in the classroom: four case studies. Integrating IT into teaching - struggling with windmills. Effects of learners' characteristics and instructional guidance on computer assisted learning. Post experimental-phases of IT across the curriculum projects: the Spanish view. Social and political influences on the integration of informatics into Japanese education. The failure of the education system to attract girls to formal informatics studies. Learners and their expectations for an integrated informatics environment. Societal and organisational influences on integration: what about networking? Short Papers. The teacher's role in a new problem-centred interdisciplinary approach. Teacher training, problems in mathematics teaching and the use of software tools. School environments and students' opinions on informatics. Animation microworlds for children as developers. How to develop discoveries. Integration of portable computers into Australian classrooms: issues and outcomes. Developing an open learning environment with communication technologies. The British approach to the integration of IT into the curriculum. Focus groups report. Addresses of contributors and programme committee. Index of contributors. Keyword index.

Contributor Bio:  Watson, Donald DONALD WATSON, FAIA, is Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York and honored as ASCA Distinguished Professor, 2002. His books include Climatic Building Design, co-authored with Kenneth Labs, (McGraw-Hill 1983, revised 1993), recipient of the Best Book in Architecture and Planning Award from the American Publishers Association. He is editor-in-chief of Time-Saver Standards for Architectural Design Data (7th edition, 1997) and Time-Saver Standards for Building Materials and Systems (2000). ALAN PLATTUS is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Yale University School of Architecture. He founded and directs the Yale Urban Design Workshop, a community design center that has worked with cities, towns and neighborhoods throughout the region. He also directs the Yale China Studio, working with universities in China on urban design issues in rapidly developing cities. He has published widely on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism, and edited the new edition of Hegemann and Peets classic text, The American Vitruvius. ROBERT G. SHIBLEY, AIA, AICP, is a professor of architecture and planning at the School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the Director of the Urban Design Project, a center for the study and practice of urban design. He also is the co-author of seven books including Urban Excellence with Philip Langdon and Polly Welsh (1990), Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities with Lynda Schneekloth (1995), and Commitment to Place: Urban Excellence and Community (2000).