High Technology in Educational Settings Holzberg, C.S. (1993, December).

Holzberg, C.S. (1993, December). Solving real-world problems with technology. Technology & Learning, 13, 10, 12, 17-28.

This article presents five brief case studies of educational settings in which high technology has become a means of increasing learning achievement and positive social interaction in the classroom, as well as the point of departure for practical application of what was learned by means of such technology. Holzberg presents specific project descriptions in a fairly straightforward manner: a desktop-publishing generated coloring book distributed to children in hospitals; a school-district recycling project that emanated from downloading on-line information about waste disposal; an energy-conservation grant for a school district that started as an energy-audit research project in one classroom; in conjunction w

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