Modern educational techniques - high tech and the traditional approach

Abstract

Personal computers are enhancing the teaching techniques that are currently being used in classrooms and laboratories. They also possess the potential to transform the dormitories and other homework units into new forms of learning centers. Here at The Altoona Campus of The Pennsylvania State University, new technology and the traditional approach are being merged, tested, and accepted by students, faculty, and administrators as modern educational techniques leading into the 1990s. Typifying these techniques is a case study of a complex and tedious teaching task of instructing a novice to design a “shape table” and implement a program that personally demonstrates the color graphics capability of the APPLE Personal Computer and provides a fundamental understanding of the concepts of computer graphics.