Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into a statewide network by which, among other projects, social-studies students can simulate a national election, young biologists analyze the pollution of a lake, and future farmers learn how best to manage a given number of acres. ¶In Sunnyvale, Calif., Robert Albrecht is using personal computers to teach "kids how.to program computers so that they can teach other kids." Sunnyvale students can also engage in such simulations as "Whale Watching," in which they help a southward-migrating gray whale make the necessary navigational and survival decisions to reach the Baja California breeding grounds. One effect of the computer...
...Illinois, at the University of Illinois' Champaign-Urbana campus, a system known as PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) helps teach 150 subjects, ranging from Swahili to rocketry (but not Plato). The student sits in a booth in which he can conduct a Socratic dialogue with the computer via a typewriter keyboard. Its protégés praise PLATO for "kindness" and "personalized attention...
...education industry created a need for easily measurable criteria for qualifying prospective teachers, and the criterion devised was the publication of scholarly articles. Today libraries are filled with scholarly books and journals that only professional scholars read. The production of this kind of academic writing is unrelated to teaching. In fact, a specialized scholar is less able to teach undergraduates--unless the students aspire to academic careers...
...women's studies program, the only official one in the University, presently hires five scholars each year to teach and research women's studies in theology...
...letter also requested that the Faculty sponsor special concentrations in women's studies and hire a visiting scholar to teach a women's course this year. Neither of these demands has been...