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Moreover, the most skilled teachers seem to be reaching a critical juncture: they know where they want to go with the technology, but they cannot get there without fundamental changes in the way their educational time is organized. Karen Sheingold, co-director of the Bank Street study, explains, "If your students are collecting information about their community for a complicated local-history project and are using the computer to organize and present it, they can't work in 40-minute periods. By the time they sit down and start getting their thoughts together, it's time to move...
...other experts. They maintain that it is a waste of time to teach programming, because future computers will likely be fed their instructions in completely different ways. What is more, insists Karen Sheingold, director of the Center for Children and Technology at Manhattan's Bank Street College of Education,' 'the transfer of computer training to other areas is not necessarily automatic.'' One study of sixth-grade programmers from Cambridge, Mass., tends to bear Sheingold out: while 69% could instruct a computer to draw a 90° angle, only 19% could actually construct one on paper...
DANIEL H. SHEINGOLD...
Associates of the House include George W. Goethals, lecturer on Social Relations; John W. M. Whiting. professor of Social Anthropology: and Edward T. Wilcox, director of the Program of General Education. Resident tutors include a husband and wife team-Carl A. and Karen Sheingold, both teaching fellows in Social Relations...
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