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The computer in the home : its challenge to education : proceedings of the IFIP TC 3/WG 3.2/WG 3.5 Working Conference on the Computer in the Home: Its Challenge to Education, Interlaken, Switzerland, 7-11 April, 1986

edited by Bernard Levrat, Eric D. Tagg, and Frank B. Lovis

North-Holland , Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1987

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"Organised by Working Group 3.1, Informatics Education at the Secondary Level and Working Group 3.5, Informatics in Elementary Education, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)."

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Description

The current proliferation of computers in the home will inevitably have a significant effect on school education and, perhaps, on the cognitive development of children. The worth of evaluating current trends and experiments in this area is therefore obvious. In recognizing the need for debate on computers in education, this volume examines the respective roles of home and school exposure to computers. It charts the development of children's knowledge in computerized environments. Papers from around the world tackle various specific issues, ranging from the role of micro-computers in educating the physically handicapped, to an assessment of projects in the U.K. - a country whose experience in this area can teach us all lessons for the future. Elementary and secondary school teachers, education policy workers and administrators, and even parents owning a personal computer, can all benefit from the expert viewpoints offered in this book.

Table of Contents

The Computer in the Home: Its Challenge to Education - What the Policy-Maker Must Do About Training (G.-O. Segond). Computers for Education in the Home: Can Schools Tap their Potential? (E.K. Deringer). East, West - Home's Best (E. Deeson). The State of the Art of Home Software (B. Tagg). Learning in the Information Society - Some Comments on Children and New Media (B. Qvarsell). Computers in the Child's Home: Introducing Tomorrow's Crisis of Elementary Education? (R.G. Lauterbach). Computerized Instruction in the Home and the Child's Development of Knowledge (S. Larsen). Not the Computer but Human Interaction is the Basis for Cognitive Development and Education (J. Nielsen). Microelectronics Education Programme - Some Lessons to be Learnt (S. Crapper). The Evolution of an Effective Home-School Microcomputer Connection (J.L. Wright, M.J. Church). Presentation of Project: Information in a Computerised Learning Environment (PILE) (J.A. Jensen). Educational Software Review (E. Riedling). Some Notes on Information Technology, Education and Computers in The Netherlands (F. van Rijn). Curriculum Development of Computers and Information Literacy in The Netherlands (A.P. Hartsuijker). Computing and Disabled People: Some Experiences with New Technology in Education and in the Home (A.T. Vincent). Electronic Paper for Blind Children (K.P. Durre, I. Durre). Technical Aids for Handicapped Children (J.D. Nicoud). Computer Users Groups and Public Education: A Case Study (D. Harkins). School and Home: The British Computer Society's Schools Committee Working Party (B. Samways, S. Crapper). Home Computing: For Better or for Worse (J.M. Zimmer). Computer Awareness by Teaching Informatics (I.O. Kerner). Round Table on Aspects of Programming. The Computer in the Home - Boon or Boondoggle? (L. Braun).

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