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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:01:40 EDT
- From: IN%"RobertRoyar@Delphi.com" Robert Royar (C&CD Moderator)
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- [I copped the following message from the BreadNet SIG, thinking it would be
- of interest to MBU-L and the C&CD crowd -rdr]
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- 69 (of 72) WWRIGHT (Bill Wright) Sep. 11, 1992 at 8:03 (1842 characters)
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- This conference is open to people on BreadNet, CHARTNet, and Urbnet --
- and others. Please feel free to put up requests for information, call
- for projects, let us know about conferences, let us know what you
- are reading, and so on. I had to get over to my computer and tell you
- about this:
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- Some teachers on the Iris network were all abuzz about the September
- issue of Macworld magazine. I got up early this morning and started
- reading some articles -- and now I see why. It is one of the best
- collections of articles about technology and education I have ever
- seen. The pieces cover what is going on in the Federal government, to
- what other countries are doing, to the success stories and failures in
- this country.
-
- One, called "Separate Realities" (Subtitle: The creation of the
- technological underclass in America's public schools) was especially
- good. Among the examples of drill and kill and computer nonuse was
- one story that caught my eye. A teacher at Sir Francis Drake School
- in San Francisco's depressed Hunters Point area went out picked up $50
- old laptops that had been used for home banking in a project.
-
- To promote writing, Drake sent its students home with the
- laptops. The simple terminals -- 300-bits-per-second modems
- with keyboards that plug into TV sets -- were once used for
- home banking. Porter picked up the antiques for $50 each,
- supplying the whole class for less than the price of a
- Macintosh Classic. Instead of going home and watching TV, the
- kids conversed online. Their writing skills steadily
- improved. Students and the parents also used the machines to
- communicate with teachers, opening a new link to family. In
- one case, a semiliterate parent learned to write by following
- the child's example.
-
- Again, this was in the September MacWorld magazine.
-
- Bill Wright
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