Children in developing countries often lack sufficient support for early learning skills prior to beginning school. This research evaluates an educational media intervention using an animated cartoon program, "Akili and Me." The program was originally created in Tanzania to teach early learning skills. This program was adapted in content…

Describes the media center program for disadvantaged children in an Oakland, California elementary school. (JB)

Project IMPACT means "Individualized Media Program and Classroom Teaching, a federally funded, media-oriented program aimed at upgrading public education in a part of Appalachia. (LS)

THE FIVE SECTIONS OF THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY REFER THE USER TO (1) BASIC TEXTS AND GENERAL REFERENCES ON INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY, (2) SELECTED WORKS ON THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED, (3) ARTICLES AND PAPERS ON INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE EDUCATION OF THE DISADVANTAGED, (4) DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDIA IN EDUCATING THE…

This paper is divided into three sections. The first section describes three programs in computer-assisted instruction (CAI) that have been developed by the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University and have performed well with underachieving children. These programs are in elementary arithmetic, initial…

Authors contend that a viable alternative exists to the use of social textbooks which do not meet the needs of minority students. (CB)

Reports on Project Muse, Hunter College, New York, which has explored ways of using the camera in the teaching of reading. (NH)

The Responsive Model Program uses the typing or learning booth as an important part of its autotelic (self-rewarding) environment, to help children develop the mental processes involved in discovery of relationships, such as the association of sound with symbols, or discovering the rules of a game. The typing booth also helps children to develop…

Ninety preschool disadvantaged children participated in a study investigating the effect of instruction using the Language Master machine, a device which uses selected word cards to teach basic language skills (e.g., completing verbal analogies, expressing ideas orally, relating perceptually similar pictures, and increasing hearing vocabulary.)…

The mobile audiovisual instructional laboratory has been an effective instrument in bringing audiovisual materials into the inner-city schools of Minneapolis, Minn. In 1969-70, a total of 535 classroom teachers in elementary, secondary, and parochial schools received individual instruction in the production and utilization of audiovisual…

A number of the activities and programs of the Atlanta Public Schools are examined with an eye toward the role media plays in each. (LS)

Under the subject contract, a program was undertaken with the object of identifying the effectiveness of equivalent response learning techniques in the human learning process, with special attention to the potentialities for training and retraining of unemployed youths, older workers, and disadvantaged sections of the population. The experiment…