A new way: Doug Kirkpatrick has discovered the most exciting aspect of computers in the classroom: they change the way he teaches
Article Abstract:
The University of California at Berkeley's Knowledge Integration Environment (KIE) is studying computers' impact on educational methods for younger students. Doug Kirkpatrick is an eight-grade science teacher in Walnut Creek, CA, who has worked with computers and KIE researchers since 1985. Kirkpatrick says the 16 donated Apple Macintosh LC II computers have enabled him to alter his teaching methods and become more effective. His students explore the World Wide Web and conduct lab experiments on specialized software. The technology has allowed Kirkpatrick to instill an exploratory approach to learning, rather than rote memorization of facts. Kirkpatrick helps students to solve practical problems while focusing on science. Computers, meanwhile, handles the mundane tasks of graphing and data recording.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Second firm to test Internet postal meeting
Article Abstract:
StampMaster said the US Postal Service today will allow the start-up to test technology to sell postable over the Internet. The PC postage-metering technology testing will involve 21 individuals and small businesses in the Washington, DC, area, StampMaster said. The Postal Service, which awarded similar approval to E-Stamp in Mar 1998, declined to comment. Both companies's technologies aim to let small businesses pay for and print postage via a PC and standard printer. StampMaster, unlike E-Stamp, would not require additional hardware. The StampMaster offering allows customers to establish prepaid postage accounts on its server computers before logging on to the StampMaster Web site for each postage request. Users's PCs then would receive authorization from the StampMaster servers to print stamps.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Strategic growth options. Technology, competencies, and competitiveness: the case for reconfigurable and flexible strategies
- Abstracts: Then and now in a small and distant land: one CD-ROM revisits Vietnam in the grip of war; another tours the country that emerged from the peace
- Abstracts: Linked to Apple but trying to branch out. Serious tool for searches. Britain moves to combat 'millenium bug': government is planning to spend $160 million in a global effort
- Abstracts: Charting: chaos theory in disguise? Optimal hedging with futures contracts: the case for fixed-income portfolios
- Abstracts: Mentoring through change. Brain dominance and IT change in practice. Reducing the pain of change by understanding expectations