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ERIC Number: ED275309
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Mar
Pages: 280
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Computers in Schools. A Strategic Planning Symposium (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, January 29-31, 1986).
Romaniuk, Gene, Ed.
This report of a symposium for educators in the province of Alberta provides background information on the symposium, a set of six major recommendations made by the participants, reports from the working groups to which participants were assigned; and the text of 12 papers presented at the meeting. The nine chapters of the report document the deliberations of the working groups: (1) Designing and Equipping Instructional Facilities; (2) Software/Courseware Evaluation, Development and Acquisition; (3) Teacher Development; (4) Instructional Networking; (5) Wide-Area Networking; (6) The Integration of Computers into the Elementary Curriculum; (7) The Integration of Computers into the Secondary Curriculum; (8) Administrative Uses of Computers; and (9) The Use of Computers in Business Education. The appendices, which make up the larger part of the report, contain the keynote presentation by David King and 11 other presentations: (1) "Designing and Equipping Instructional Facilities" (John E. Percevault); (2) "Planning and Designing School Computer Facilities" (Walter Hepler); (3) "Software/Courseware Evaluation, Development and Acquisition" (David Wighton); (4) "Legal Aspects of Software/Courseware Acquisition and Use" (Judith Anderson); (5) "Teacher Training: A Preliminary Discussion Paper" (Dale Burnett and Hank Boer); (6) "Instructional Networking in the Classroom" (Milt Petruk); (7) "Wide Area Networking in Alberta Schools" (Rick Bell); (8) "Elementary Computer Education" (Walter Savill); (9) "Computers in Schools, Strategic Planning Newsletter" (David Moursund); (10) "Administrative Uses of Computers" (Ralph Schienbein); and (11) "The Use of Computers in Business Education in Alberta" (Sharon Prather). (DJR)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Collected Works - Proceedings
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Alberta School Trustees' Association, Edmonton.; Alberta Teachers Association, Edmonton.
Authoring Institution: Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Media and Technology Branch.
Identifiers - Location: Canada
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