Provides information on Logo, a powerful computer language that allows students to control their own learning. Includes list of available Logo and Turtle Graphics programs (publisher, manufacturer, hardware requirements, software/print materials, and price included). Cautions buyers to beware of imitations which may not support all Logo features…

With the change to simpler computers, training the large number of individuals without electronics backgrounds who use/service them became cost prohibitive. However, computer-assisted instruction, coupled with an interactive videodisc, has been found useful in delivering quality instruction cost effectively at a large number of widely dispersed…

Views of Arthur Luehrmann, an individual who has become known as one of the most vociferous advocates of computer literacy in educational computing, are presented. Spending four out of five days in a computer literacy course on computing and one out of five on awareness issues is advocated. (MP)

Discusses steps involved in model building and simulation: understanding a problem, building a model, and simulation. Includes a mathematical model (focusing on a problem dealing with influenza) written in the DYNAMO computer language, developed specifically for writing simulation models. (Author/JN)

Recommendations regarding literacy and the responsibilities of science educators are reviewed. The opportunity for pioneering, base-line research studies on the use of microcomputers in the classroom is viewed to exist. Significant contributions science education can make to computer literacy are noted. (MP)

LOGO (a computer language) is designed to provide an environment in which learners determine a problem to solve, make choices, experiment, try out solutions, and build on what they already know. Student activities using LOGO and the teacher's role in a LOGO classroom are discussed. (JN)

Presents a format used in workshops with teachers and administrators to help reduce their computer anxiety. An analogy between the use of a computer and a movie projector in the classroom serves as the basis for familiarizing novices with computers. (MER)

Ten computer languages are compared and contrasted. A series of programs focusing on the average of two numbers are designed to point out differences in console input, console output, and common arithmetic. (MP)

The teaching of numeral representations other than decimals is seen as a necessary and important step in the education of pupils in computing. Basic arithmetic procedures for binary, octal, and hexidecimal bases are discussed. (MP)

Computer Literacy Objectives developed by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) computer literacy study are given. The objectives are grouped under the six headings: Hardware; Programing and Algorithms; Software and Data Processing; Applications; Impact; and Attitudes, Values, and Motivation. (MK)

Discusses computer programs and courses offered to children and teachers at the new Future Center at the Capital Children's Museum, and describes the displays and activities of the communications exhibit and Kid-Net, a minicomputer based time-sharing system for which a series of computer programs for use by visitors will be developed. (RBF)

Reviews development in electronics technology of digital computers, considering the binary number representation, miniaturization of electronic components, cost and space requirements of computers, ways in which computers are used, and types of computers appropriate for teaching computer literacy and demonstrating physiological simulation. (CS)

This article examines the difference made in computing when one school switched from a terminal with a telephone link to a computer, to a complete microprocessor system. (MK)

A course in basic information retrieval principles and use of online document retrieval systems is a curriculum requirement for undergraduate computer science students at Stockton State College in New Jersey. Contents of the course include both theory-oriented lectures and online search sessions using DIALOG. Eleven references are listed. (SW)

A method for motivating programing techniques in a computer science class which uses alphametics, mathematical puzzles where words or phrases represent numerals or arithmetic operations, is given. (MK)