This document contains a series of exercises and materials designed by the Futures Task Force to sensitize fellow citizens to rapid change and to encourage them to begin thinking in terms of what the future may bring in their community. Nine sections comprise the publication and cover: (1) a brief history describing the formation of the Futures…

This book contains game-planning ideas which will help instructors and students design games to fit the needs of their own particular schools and communities. The strategies and plans are recommended for classes of social problems, human relations, psychology, and can also be used with summer camp groups, chambers of commerce, clubs, and church…

This publication contains papers read at the Conference on Urban Geography for Secondary School Teachers in Hong Kong, 1973, and experimental teaching materials on urban studies based on some of the ideas of the American High School Geography Project. The following papers are included: (1) "Teaching Urbanization" provides general…

The professional internship exchange program was designed to provide in-service vocational personnel development in cooperative vocational education. Ten new centers were established under this project. A total of 30 secondary high schools and community colleges throughout the State of Washington have participated in the three-year project.…

The simulation materials in this booklet are presented in the form of "in" basket items that represent some problems encountered by secondary school principals in actual situations. These exercises are directed toward improving those skills related to the administrative processes of decisionmaking, supervision, planning, and problem…

This report outlines the educational fiscal impacts of the present Massachusetts system of school finance and describes the fiscal characteristics and effects of alternative finance plans that are both equitable and elastic in nature. The first part of the report describes and evaluates the overall character of the Massachusetts State-local fiscal…

A rationale for the use of gaming and simulation for instructional purposes is developed in the introduction to this paper. The major portion of the text is comprised of several models of computer programs for economics instruction. (SHM)

CITY III is a computer-assisted simulation game which allows the participants to make decisions affecting various aspects of the economic, governmental, and social sectors of a simulated urban area. The game director selects one of five possible starting city configurations, may set a number of conditions in the city before the start of play, and…

This report is the result of the 1969-70 High School Geography Project (HSGP) fields trials which had as their purpose the evaluation of three teacher kits entitled, "Using Simulation to Involve Students,""Using Media to Stimulate Inquiry," and "Using Evaluation to Improve Instruction." Each kit has an Instructor's…

This paper describes the development and evaluation of self-instructional Spanish course designed to produce an elementary communication skill sufficient to meet conversational and travel requirements. Some 106 lessons, known as AUTOSPAN and organized in seven major sections are described. Two novel pedagogic techniques which simulate live…

Within the context of programmatic research and an empirical systems approach, an interactive computer system was designed for use in counselor education and assessment. This report first describes the identification of several discrete counseling styles and the development of the Counselor Repertoire Developments System (CRD) to analyze the…

A planning conference on technology in education resulted in specific recommendations to the National Institute of Education (NIE). 1) Technology offers the potential for amplifying individuality, expanding the scope and depth of the educational process, contributing system studies towards goal definition, and improvements in quality, equality of…

Seventy social studies educational games and simulations, designed for K-12th grade, with many applicable to adults, are described and analyzed in the major section of this book. Each of the analyses is divided into eight categories and provides an overview of the game; a description of the physical qualities and cost of the materials; suggested…

Society and education are changing rapidly, and since computers are playing a significant role in these changes it is imperative that secondary school teachers become more fully informed about computers. Computers are of interest to learners because they have led to new theoretical developments, such as automata theory, have many practical…

Phase II was a field evaluation of a communication and learning system package of films, simulation games, discussion questions, and posters designed to promote career awareness in junior high school children. It was proposed that this evaluation serves as a prototype for the assessment of the effects of learning systems on the affective and…