EJ465125 CS745626
Title: Using Multimedia with Navajo Children: An Effort to Alleviate
Problems of Cultural Learning Style, Background of Experience, and
Motivation.Author(s): Smith, Kenneth J.
Source: Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, v8 n3 p287-94 Jul-Sep 1992
Publication Date: 1992
ISSN: 1057-3569
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: CIJNOV1993
Describes
how IBM's "LinkWay" hypertext program was used in the
Tuba City Boarding School (Navajo Reservation) to develop reading
improvement programs and to allow students to develop their own
productions. Notes that the program addresses the cooperative, noncompetitive
nature of the Navajo learning style, and the problems of unfamiliar
content and lack of immediate purpose. (SR)
Descriptors: *Cultural Background; Elementary Education; *Hypermedia;
*Instructional Materials; *Navajo; Reading Improvement; *Student
Motivation
