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From: wodarz@iwsam.ATT.COM (Wodarz)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Computer Education Programs for Elementary Teachers
Message-ID: <201@iwsam.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 88 01:31:33 GMT
References: <8472@g.ms.uky.edu> <3537@killer.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: computer education

In article <3537@killer.UUCP>, elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
> > I'm an education major interested in teaching (for the moment but not later)
> > grades K-4.  I have also developed (over last year) an interest in computers.
> > What I would really like to do is teach computers on the elementary level
> 
I am an elementary school teacher.  I have taught 5th & 6th grade.  I have my 
bs from U of I and my master's degree in computer education from 
National College of Education in Evanston.  This is a fairly new program -- four
or five years old.  There are many teachers in the area who are interested in 
the integration of computers into the standard curriculum.  National offers 
a program that consists of learning BASIC, Pascal, LOGO (from LISP) as well as
designing and creating programs for use with kids.  If you are technically 
inclined, you will probably find this program annoying.   

 There is a group called Illinois computing educators  (ice).  They have regular monthly meetings in Lombard.  If you are interested, Sandy Turner or
Mike Land are two people you can contact at 256-5150.  They are the two
main PhDs who run the program -- they have just published a book called
"Tools for Schools" -- and they are wonderful people to talk with.

Also there is a bulletin board run by ICE - 742-2418.  Lots of info can be 
found there. 

				Nan Wodarz




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