Microcomputers in Education


Book Description

Designed to put educators in touch with the literature, people, and resources that will keep them informed of the current and future state of the art in computer education, this guide provides citations from 1976 through March 1982 compiled from computer searches of ERIC, Magazine Index, and Newspaper Index, and from manual searches of Education Index, Microcomputer Index, and the library and information files of the San Mateo Educational Resources Center. Each section begins with a brief introduction. Within each section, citations are arranged by document format: journal and newspaper articles, microfiche, documents, and books and reports. A list of acronyms is included. Individual chapters focus on the following topics: futures/trends, computer literacy, philosophy, classroom applications, management applications, selection/evaluation criteria, teacher/administrator education, research studies, home computers, and references/resources. An appendix lists additional information sources, and author and subject indexes are provided. (LMM)










Educators' Handbook


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Using Microcomputers


Book Description

Brownell's book is an introductory text on microcomputers for `academics'. It contains specific examples of computer applications useful to social scientists. The examples are of bibliographies, references, research notes, census data, survey data, grant and contract accounting, instructional possibilities and the preparation of book length manuscripts. The chapters on hardware contain brief descriptions of the most popular machines with specifications and observations on their varying usefulness. The software discussions consist of basic descriptions of programming: what they can do; how easy they are to learn; and their principal advantages and disadvantages.