Reports: Acceptance ACCEPTANCE OF COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION Ludwig Braun Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn I should start out by saying that I am not a computer professional. an educator who is looking at a new tool. I make the following remarks. I am This is the context within which There are two elements in computer education that I think are important for all of us to be aware of. One of them is that this is a tool which is available to us in education and we have got to find ways of using it, if it is at all possible~ education. to improve the quality and to decrease the cost of Another reason it seems to be important is that we are surrounded by computers as citizens of this country and of the world in an ever-increasing way. As a consequence, it is increasingly important for everyone to have some For both of these reasons, it is essential that understanding of computers. computers begin to come into our educational process more firmly. One of the things that I think is inhibitory is that teachers seem to be frightened of computers and to have no understanding of them. That
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