Word: teaching
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...Japanese in response to the Reagan Administration prodding. True, Nakasone has pledged that his country will be an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" for the U.S., and that he will push for defense increases. But his program is already lagging. Future resistance is likely to be stiff. Japanese schools still teach the evils of militancy, and of course the older generation clearly remember the horrors...
...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...
...newer chorus of experts says, computers should be employed neither as automated tutors to deliver the content of standard courses nor as tools to train junior programmers, but as resources to enrich the curriculum. "One of the best uses of computers for high school students would be to help teach kids to write," says Henry Becker, director of an ongoing Johns Hopkins classroom-technology study. But Becker estimates that high school computers are being used for word processing less than 7% of the time...
...child-would require at least another 3 million machines. Estimated cost: $4.5 billion. And if sufficient equipment were made available, the schools would still face a costlier problem: teacher training. As a rule of thumb, each dollar spent on computers requires two more dollars to teach the teachers how to use them. "If you don't change the preparation of the teachers," says Tucker, "putting a lot of computers into our schools would be an appalling waste of money...
Considering the philosophical, pedagogical and financial problems ahead, the supposed computer revolution in schools seems barely under way. "What you have now," says Alan Kay, chief scientist at Atari, "is a bunch of people attempting to teach violin who have had a six-week course in what the violin is and who have never heard violin music before...