Kimball Croft <dh48901@goodnet.com> replied:
>Check out Mehan's research on workstations in the classroom and what happens
>when a dyatic system is used with students. The learning curve increases when
>two students work per computer rather than one.
The model classroom should probably have at least one computer/workstation
per student with many peripheral networking devices and peripherals
available to help in the overall knowledge building effort.
How you organize your classroom activities around that is a completely
different issue. Certainly (and I'm a proponent of cooperative learning)
group activity around a workstation is a higher-order design for
learning. But every student should be able to go back to a computer
to work independently without having to wait in line. And some computers
in the classroom may be dedicated to some special interesting tasks.
---rob--- ps: Teaching Online course still has openings :-)
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