COMMENT DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF MATERIALS FOR COMPUTER INSTRUCTION Judith Edwards Staff Member, Program REACT Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Portland, Oregon and Dr. Ralph Van Dusseldorp Dept. of Education University of I o w a Iowa City, Iowa Introduction It's been only a half dozen years or could almost literally name every teacher computer in a public school. Those first reactions ranging from shock and distrust so since the days when one in the country who was using a pioneering teachers met to curiosity and admiration. Today, the rapid acceptance of the computer as a valid educational medium is evidenced by a steady increase in the number of terminals and computers installed in classrooms, until today a high school that does not have computer access for instruction is most likely considering acquiring it in the near future. In those early years, "computer instruction" usually fell naturally into one of two modes: teaching computer science (as in the university model) or problem solving in mathematics. In fact, the mathematics teachers seemed to have an exclusive claim on the computer for several years. In many cases, math teachers discouraged other departments in the school from using the computer, for fear
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