OUTLOOK : Computing in Education A Single Course for Preservice Teachers Robert P. Taylor Center for Intelligent Tools in Education Teachers College, Columbia University Explanation This issue of Outlook is a collection of background papers prepared for a project jointly sponsored by Teachers College, Columbia University, the Association for Computing Machinery's Education Board and Special Interest Group on Computer Uses in Education, and the International Council of Computers and Education. The project was conceived at NECC'86 in San Diego, to produce some official guidance for teacher training institutions and agencies about what should be included in the training of today's teachers so that they will be at least minimally ready to use com puter-based electronic technology appropriately and integrally in their teaching once they become practicing teachers. The specific sub-project now underway was designed to produce the outline of a single course that could be offered in preservice teacher training programs, particularly by those programs that do not currently have a well-conceived approach to providing their prospective teachers with introductory training in computer use. Actual work on the preservice sub-project began at a NECC'87 meeting in Philadelphia and has extended through two-day meetings at Teachers College during the
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