Title: Children and microcomputers :
Authors: Chen, Milton; Paisley, William J.; Paisley, William.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Physical description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: Part I: New technology and new research opportunities -- Children, new media, and microcomputers: continuities of research / William Paisley -- A macro-focus on microcomputers: eight utilization and effects issues / Milton Chen -- Research on children and microcomputers: a review of utilization and effects studies / Debra Lieberman -- Part II: Studies of utilization -- How schools use microcomputers: results from a national survey / Henry Jay Becker -- Microcomputer implementation in schools: findings from twelve case studies / Robert K. Yin and J. Lynne White -- The adoption and use of microcomputers in homes and elementary schools / Bruce Watkins and David Brimm -- The diffusion of microcomputers in California high schools / Everett M. Rogers, John H. McManus, John D. Peters, and Joung-Im Kim -- Perspectives on courseware / Frederick Williams, Victoria Williams, and Amy Friedman Phillips -- Part III: Studies of educational effects -- LOGO and the development of thinking skills / Roy D. Pea, D. Midian Kurland, and Jan Hawkins -- Capitalizing on computer-based interactive feedback: an investigation of Rocky's Boots / Joanne S. Stein and Marcia C. Linn -- Adolescents' use of computer-based health information: the BARN project / Robert P. Hawkins, Kris Bosworth, Betty Chewning, Patricia M. Day, and David H. Gustafson -- Part IV: Future views of microcomputers and research -- Process versus product: a perspective on tools for communal and informal electronic learning / John Seely Brown -- Children and interactive learning environments / Alfred Bork -- Microworlds of research / Milton Chen, Debra Lieberman, and William Paisley.
Subject headings (LCSH): Computers and children.; Microcomputers.