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Kantowski, Mary Grace – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1981
The microcomputer has great potential for making high school geometry more stimulating and more easily understood by the students. The microcomputer can facilitate instruction in both the logico-deductive and spatial-visual aspects of geometry through graphics representations, simulation of motion, and its capability of interacting with the…
Descriptors: Analytic Geometry, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Oriented Programs
Charp, Sylvia – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1981
The computer has not yet reached its full potential in the secondary school. Besides instructional usage, present usages of the computer include computer-managed instruction, acquisition of basic skills, teaching computer literacy, evaluating occupational information, and providing data about colleges and universities. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development
Vannatta, Glen D. – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1981
The evolution of computers for instructional purposes in the Indianapolis Public Schools system is traced through a look at the progress of the system from the transporting of students to a college computer facility for instruction to the current explosion of microcomputers. Major problems involved teacher training, acquisition of equipment, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Objectives
Frandsen, Henry – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1981
The computer has enormous potential for enhancing the secondary trigonometry curriculum. Areas that can be improved through use of the computer include: solutions of triangles, inductive investigations of functions, graphs of functions, and solution of trigonometric identities. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Oriented Programs, Futures (of Society)
Mason, Emanuel J. – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1982
Factors in selecting and using microcomputers for school, business, and industry are outlined. Considerations include: (1) computer literacy; (2) networking; (3) training of handicapped people; (4) training and work applications; and (5) technology developments. (FG)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Oriented Programs
