This report is intended to provide advice to Ontario school staffs, school boards, and the Ministry of Education on (1) the effects of using computers in schools, (2) criteria for selecting courseware and hardware, (3) subjects most effectively approached with computers, and (4) priorities for future courseware development. Pilot projects for the…

Taking the current excitement among educators concerning the uses of microcomputers for student instruction as a point of departure, this paper addresses the problems and possibilities associated with the uses of microcomputers in the classroom and discusses these in terms of instructional techniques and the social aspects of integrating computer…

A series of pilot projects for small schools was developed by the Manitoba Department of Education to test new concepts that, if successful, could be replicated by other small schools. This report contains a summary of projects involving: (1) computer managed physics instruction; (2) training teachers to use computers effectively; (3) providing…