[seul-edu] What is educational software

[Graham Mitchell <mitchell@cs.leander.isd.tenet.edu>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:25:47PM -0500, George Free wrote:
> 
> Don't know if they fall into the "educational" category or not.
> Actually, what is the definition of "educational software"? Is it
> possible to define?

The way I see it, it can be simply defined in one of two ways.

1) Software that educates.
2) Software the educators use.

I lean more toward definition 2.  I guess maybe we could hybrid these to

3) Software that aids educators in educating.

Just my $ 0.02....

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Graham Mitchell <mitchell@cs.leander.isd.tenet.edu>
Computer science teacher - Leander High School, Leander TX