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Jewish Family Service

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A Four-Part Workshop

which provides information and
support for the concerns of

MARK LICHTERMAN SPECIAL TO IRE JEWISH NEWS

MALE CAREGIVERS

Tuesday Mornings
10:00 - 11:30 am
January 14, 21, 28 & February 4, 1997

at

Jewish Family Service

24123 Greenfield Road • Southfield

Fee for the program is only $40.00

To register or for more information,
contact Erella Reichman, M.S.W. (810) 559-1500

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A trio of reasons to take a look at Hillel's new
Technology Center.

JEWISH
FAMILY
SERVICE

illel Day School's
new Technology
Center is impres-
sive for at least
three reasons.
First, with some 31 state-of-
the-art computer stations for use
from 7:30 a.m. to well after
school, the center is serious in
its commitment to making
these tools available to the en-
tire student body
Second, and at least as impor-
tant, is the fact that the center
has hired a well-qualified and
highly motivated professional
named Jay Greenberg to head
its technology programs.
With a bachelor's degree in el-
ementary and special education,
and an emphasis on comput-
ers and adaptive technology,
he certainly possesses the
necessary credentials.
What his credentials don't
reveal is his unmistak-
able enthusiasm for finding
ways to improve teach-
ing by using computers and
the associated technolo-
gies.
Along with Shelley Goldberg,
responsible for the mini-com-
puter lab for the lower elemen-
tary grades, and Phyllis Litwak,
an instructional technology as-
sistant who works both with
younger and older students, Mr.
Greenberg has begun to devel-
op technology goals for students
from kindergarten through
eighth grade.
Hillel's teachers, both in the
secular and Hebrew curricu-

lums, also will play a large role
in developing ways to enhance
the learning process through the
use of the center's resources.
Kindergarten students, for ex-
ample, will use the lab to im-
prove and reinforce letter
recognition and number usage.
The program's goals for stu-
dents in first, second and third
grades include technological
problem-solving and creativity
through the use of software,
such as writing and illustrating
stories.

Mark Lichterman lives
and works in Hunting-
ton Woods as a health-
care lawyer and writer,
and'as a full-time
care er for his 5-yeap.
old son and -year-old
daughter You can reach
him on e-mail at
susmatqix.netcom.com .

In the later elementary years,
students will learn more ad-
vanced computer-related skills,
like word processing. By this
age, the children are aware of,
and should begin to understand
how to use the vast array of in-
formation available on CD
ROM and the on-line services.
Middle-school students al-
ready are extremely sophisticat-

ed users of the technology.
Since numerous such students
have had access to computers at
home, they can easily use word
processing. They understand
how to use data-base programs,
and they certainly know how to
use CD ROM technology.
Many, if not most, also have
experienced the wild and won-
derful world of the Internet and
will be able to jump right in
when they have access to e-mail
accounts and the Internet.
Imagine an eighth grader
writing a paper on Jerusalem. In
addition to the usual resources
in the library, she can sign on to
the Internet. Within a matter of
--- minutes, she can see and
hear the sights and sounds of
the city. She will zoom over the
Mount of Olives, into the Old
City, to the Western Wall,
and then to the Knesset —
without ever leaving Farming-
ton Hills.
The third reason the Hillel
Technology Center is such an
impressive place is that employ-
ees understand that e-mail and
the World Wide Web give
youth access to inappropriate,
and potentially dangerous, ma-
terial.
In response, the Hillel Day
School Technology Committee,
composed of parents and the
Technology Center staff, is de-
veloping an "appropriate use
policy" Mr. Greenberg has gath-
ered samples of other plans
from around the country to act
as models for the Hillel effort. El