After comparing the effect of the automobile on society and education in the early 1900's, the author states that present day arguments for drastic educational change because of the power of the computer are premature. (MLF)

Recounts the establishment of a computer literacy program in the Phoenixville Area (Pennsylvania) School District. Describes the newly created computer coordinator position and emphasizes the coordinator's role in obtaining faculty participation and support through the provision of hands-on computer experience. (PGD)

Educational administrators need to become sufficiently computer literate to ask programers the necessary questions, to know and use the full range of computer capabilities, and to increase the computing capabilities of their schools. (MLF)

During the next decade schools will shift to a new model of instruction that combines teachers and machines. Described are the probable characteristics of the model, the coming changes in curriculum content and design, and the stages of evolution to the new model. (MLF)