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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:02:00 CDT
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- From: Amanda Corcoran <YKFAC@TTACS.BITNET>
- Subject: RE: SURVEY QUESTION
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- RE: what i would miss most in a nonCAI classroom.
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- Off the top off my head--
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- * a truly student-centered classroom--I think the computers
- really are essential to moving student attention to each other
- and their work instead of focussing upon the instructor
- * ease of recording student activities for research and data
- collection
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- * dynamics of the computer classroom. They (I heard) suggest that
- instructors change plans about three or four times during the
- course of a class in a traditional classroom. During CAI, I for
- one, change plans a great deal. Students often take off on an
- activity I wasn't sure would work and drag on an activity I
- thought would. Of course, this happens in a noncai room too; the
- constant action of the CAI is what is thrilling. No silence, no
- stillness--constant movement, constant writing, constant
- interaction.
- I'm going to send this. God knows what my editor is doing. Still,
- maybe my message will heal itself in the net.
- Amanda Inskip Corcoran--Texas Tech
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