September 07, 1974 (vol. 85, iss. 3) • Page Image 8
… 2000 computer used to supplement regular in- struction. WHILE COLLEGE students curse their computerized drop- and-add system, the students at Clonlara have complete con- trol over their electronic tu…
… FREE school student takes full advantage of the educational potential offered by computerized teaching. 5.4 PERCENT: Jobless totals rise Japanese KARA'r Shotokan Chidokan Dojo, Inc.. 209 N. MAIN…
… children can instruct their teachers, but at the Clon- lara Free school, the students do just that. However, their teacher is not a matronly lady who can be paciifed with apples. Rather, she is a Hazleton…
… flus'ered pupil sembles a television screei con- lost two games, but won the nected to a typewriter keyboard, third, Mountgomery revealed and it is tied in with a master computer in Novi. that the…
… computer was progam- To operate the machine, theme student enters an idea ification The most tedious exercise, number, and instructions appear says Mountgomery is plotting. on the screen, giving the child…
… Consuming hours plotting cars, a choice of four drills. boats, and flowers on graph "The most significant exer- paper the student transfers The cise is the 'echo function,' used coordinates to the computer to…
… teach reading," explained r s t m Mountgomery. "When the -s:u- screen. dent types a word or phrase the "In the few kids who can computer duplicates it on the plot, we've seen exceptional screen." growth…