From the Electronic Classroom.

Friedheim, William; Jaffee, David

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ERIC Number: EJ595179

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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ISSN: ISSN-0190-2946

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From the Electronic Classroom.

Friedheim, William; Jaffee, David

Academe, v85 n5 p56-60 Sep-Oct 1999

Two urban university professors report on their experiences with use of new technologies in their American history classes, focusing on the crucial role of the teacher. The challenge for the first was to reconcile the enormity of the Internet with the need to make its resources available to students. The second found the technology enabled students to practice historiography. (MSE)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Historiography, Internet, Personal Narratives, Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher Role, United States History, Urban Universities

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers

Language: English

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Note: Theme issue, "Education Bytes: The Problems and Promise of Technology."