{"title":"An elementary school scenario","authors":"D. Moursund, Karen J. Billings","doi":"10.1145/382236.382868","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is late spring and you go back to your home town for the tenth year reunion of your high school graduating class. While in town, you find out that your favorite teacher from grade school, Mrs. Hansen, is still teaching and you decide to call and talk with her. She is excited to hear from you and before you know it, you have accepted an invitation to visit her classroom. As you enter the school building the next day, you observe that it still looks like the school you attended. However, as you walk down the hallway towards her classroom, you notice that some of the rooms look a little different: there are microcomputers in them, and VCR's and other machines! While you are pleased to see all that hardware, you are pretty sure that Mrs. Hansen's room won't have much equipment. You just can't imagine her using computers in her classroom. But once you get to her fourth grade class room, you see quite a few computers. Mrs. Hansen greets you warmly and sees the look of surprise on your face. 'I guess these computers weren't here when you were in grade school.\" she says, smiling. \"Actually, ff someone had told me fifteen years ago that I'd be using all these machines, I wouldn't have believed them.\" \"But\", she added, \"times change and rve changed with them.\" You are curious and ask her about all these changes. \"When did all this happen, and how? Is everyone using computers these days?\" She says she will try to update you by condensing the past fifteen years in fifteen minutes, before the children come in. She explains that the transition took place slowly but steadily. \"1 took advantage of the inservice opportunities that the school district offered after school and in the summertime. I learned how to operate the computer, to program a little, to evaluate software, and then how to use it in my classroom. Some of the experiences were better than others, but there was always something new to learn and something new to try with my students. Using computers has been a challenge, but it's kept me excited about teaching and the students excited about learning. Both the students and I benefit from using computers.\" \"Just what are the benefits?\" you ask. \"You sound like a school board membed\" she says. \"We are, in fact, doing an evaluation of our computer program this spring, but I think you will get the best answer to your question when you watch the children. When they come in, observe what they do, but also how they work together on their lessons and projects. They don't all use","PeriodicalId":299906,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigcue Outlook","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Sigcue Outlook","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/382236.382868","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It is late spring and you go back to your home town for the tenth year reunion of your high school graduating class. While in town, you find out that your favorite teacher from grade school, Mrs. Hansen, is still teaching and you decide to call and talk with her. She is excited to hear from you and before you know it, you have accepted an invitation to visit her classroom. As you enter the school building the next day, you observe that it still looks like the school you attended. However, as you walk down the hallway towards her classroom, you notice that some of the rooms look a little different: there are microcomputers in them, and VCR's and other machines! While you are pleased to see all that hardware, you are pretty sure that Mrs. Hansen's room won't have much equipment. You just can't imagine her using computers in her classroom. But once you get to her fourth grade class room, you see quite a few computers. Mrs. Hansen greets you warmly and sees the look of surprise on your face. 'I guess these computers weren't here when you were in grade school." she says, smiling. "Actually, ff someone had told me fifteen years ago that I'd be using all these machines, I wouldn't have believed them." "But", she added, "times change and rve changed with them." You are curious and ask her about all these changes. "When did all this happen, and how? Is everyone using computers these days?" She says she will try to update you by condensing the past fifteen years in fifteen minutes, before the children come in. She explains that the transition took place slowly but steadily. "1 took advantage of the inservice opportunities that the school district offered after school and in the summertime. I learned how to operate the computer, to program a little, to evaluate software, and then how to use it in my classroom. Some of the experiences were better than others, but there was always something new to learn and something new to try with my students. Using computers has been a challenge, but it's kept me excited about teaching and the students excited about learning. Both the students and I benefit from using computers." "Just what are the benefits?" you ask. "You sound like a school board membed" she says. "We are, in fact, doing an evaluation of our computer program this spring, but I think you will get the best answer to your question when you watch the children. When they come in, observe what they do, but also how they work together on their lessons and projects. They don't all use