A collection of interviews and an overview of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) are presented. (MP)

Pocket computers are promoted as an inexpensive means of teaching computer programing, particularly in today's world where there are increasing difficulties of obtaining funds for new curriculum materials. Samples of programs written in BASIC that can be run on pocket computers are presented, and instruction in elementary grades is promoted. (MP)

An attempt is made to predict what sort of impact computer technology shall have on society by the year 2000. The difficulty and complexity of any prediction of the future is first noted. It is predicted that society shall be dramatically reshaped, with a need for new human goals. (MP)

The views of Dr. Seymour Papert, developer of the LOGO programing language, are presented along with a general discussion of the potential of LOGO to open up computers to young children. (MP)

Instruction using computers is viewed as different from most other approaches to education, by allowing more than right or wrong answers, by providing models for systematic procedures, by shifting the boundary between formal and concrete processes, and by influencing the development of thinking in many new ways. (MP)

Before the end of this century, it is felt that students may be receiving all of their instruction from computers, with no contact with live teachers whatsoever. However, a new system is promoted that gives teachers new freedom of direction, with computers presenting material and eliminating the petty time-consuming work. (MP)