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...mail message sent to Undergraduate Council members and members of PUCC, Alicia Moretti '96 said the new group is an alliance of several organizations...
...what we have merely been told. Still, the guiding hand of the teacher is a vital element in the process. ``You can't just give kids powerful computers and powerful information and set them loose. The teacher must create a compelling set of educational questions,'' says associate headmaster Frank Moretti, who heads Dalton's technology group, the New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning. The effectiveness of Dalton's program has been closely observed by outside experts. The school hired John Black of Columbia's Teachers College to conduct a study comparing the analytic skills of Archaeotype students with sixth-graders...
...much time is devoted to Archaeotype. The goal of any school is to prepare students for the world in which they will live. Dalton's emphasis on collaborative learning -- those little groups around a computer -- ``is perfect preparation,'' says Moretti, for a world in which most problems, whether scientific or corporate, are addressed by teams. Students often produce their papers collectively. Increasingly, projects are composed in the same multimedia format used for instruction. In addition, students are being primed for the world of the Internet by taking part in the school's own E-mail and bulletin-board system. They...
Then there's Nanni Moretti, who displays a more genial egotism. Though the Italian actor-writer-director is in every scene of Caro Diario (Dear Diary) -- an episodic film that is the equivalent of an artist's sketchbook -- his is a skeptical, almost modest form of auteur hubris...
This concluding vignette ends his vacation-like jaunt with a crash against the brick wall of mortality. But that still can't shake Moretti's take-it-as- it-comes philosophy. For this engaging artist, in life as on a scooter, the journey is the adventure...