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Critical Reading: Visual Skills
Dennis M. Adams
The computer controlled visual media, particularly television, are becoming an increasingly powerful instrument for the manipulation of thought. Powerful visual images increasingly reflect and shape personal and external reality--politics being one...
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Interactive Children's Literature: Moving from Print to Electronic Literacy
Dennis M. Adams
Reading Horizons Vol. 26, No. 4 (1986) pp. 247–51
Using current technology and learning theory, computer-controlled literature programs have been and will be developed that allow children to interact with literature. This technique will help students' reading concepts fall into place more rapidly...
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Creativity, Basic Skills and Computing: A Conceptual Intersection with Implications for Education
Dennis Adams; Mary Hamm
Journal of Creative Behavior Vol. 23, No. 4 (1989) pp. 258–62
The article relates the creative process, basic skills, and computing. The importance of both basic skills and creative development are stressed and the computer is seen as both an expressive medium and a skill builder. Computer models encourage the ...
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Collaborative Inquiry: Working toward Shared Goals
Mary Hamm; Dennis Adams
Kappa Delta Pi Record Vol. 38, No. 3 (2002) pp. 115–18
Working cooperatively in groups can help students connect learning with experience and build relationships at the same time. In collaborative inquiry, student questions can connect the big ideas that cut across disciplines. This paper describes how...
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Computer Based Technology and the Language/Liberal Arts: Stepping into the Electronic Universe
Dennis M. Adams
The need for the liberal arts curriculum to incorporate new technology in order for education to reach its potential is examined in this paper, which also looks at the potential for computer-based telecommunications to extend continued education for ...
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Experience, Reality, and Computer-Controlled Technology
Dennis M. Adams
Journal of Economic Education Vol. 8, No. 3 (1985) pp. 46–50
Explores roles of computer technology and real world experiences in the learning process. Encourages teaching of critical viewing skills and other aspects of visual fluency. Forecasts changes in the educational system to accommodate emerging...
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Toward Global Communication Networks: How Television is Forging New Thinking Patterns
Dennis M. Adams; Mary Fuchs
T.H.E. Journal Vol. 13, No. 5 (1986) pp. 108–11
Recent alliances between communication providers and computer manufacturers will lead to new technological combinations that will deliver visually-based ideas and information to a worldwide audience. Urges that those in charge of future video...
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Artificial Intelligence Applications for Education: Promise, ...Promises
Dennis M. Adams; Mary Hamm
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 7, No. 1 (1988) pp. 4–7
Surveys the current status of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Discusses intelligent tutoring systems, robotics, and applications for educators. Likens the status of AI at present to that of aviation in the very early 1900s. States that...
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Technology, Learning Communities and Young People: The Future Something Project
Steve Herne; Jeff Adams; Dennis Atkinson; Paul Dash; John Jessel
International Journal of Art and Design Education Vol. 32, No. 1 (February 2013) pp. 68–82
The "Future Something Project" ("FSP"), a two-year action research project, was devised to nurture the creative and technological talent of small groups of young people at risk by creating a structured network, mentored and driven by creative...