computer-assisted instruction

Offers primary school teachers practical ideas for crafting literacy connections through activities, read-alouds, and computer exercises, in a way that will enhance their students' learning.

Explains how video and computer games can help children build successful futures by teaching them to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, lawyers, and other innovative professionals, and helping them learn how to survive in an ever-changing world.

Offers practical and theoretical information on how to teach and read different types of media including Internet materials, textbooks, tests, literature, information, and images, each with background, standards and classroom connections, and resources. Includes a Web site link.

A collection of fifty standards-based technology projects for library media specialists and teachers.

Explains how to introduce children to computers and electronic resources, providing forty complete storytime programs incorporating Web sites, CD-ROMs, and videos with songs, fingerplays, and popular picture books.

Explains how to use a personal computer to complete activities related to social studies, such as drawing maps, putting out a community newsletter, and creating a local time-line.

Discusses instructional techniques and issues related to classroom and laboratory use of computers, helping teachers develop positive attitudes for using computers to teach various subjects.

A collection of technology-based activities designed to help students become successful readers and writers.

A guide for educators that discusses how to use copyrighted materials in the classroom, explains how digital materials and Internet elements can be used, and provides classroom projects that use copyrighted materials.