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>Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 12:13:54 >To: cgravereau@aol.com >From: Nancy Strong <nstrong@lawton.k12.vt.us> >Subject: Computer Use > >RE LM_NET posting....I think this is a major issue conscientious educators must deal with emphatically and definitively. Although there is value in incidental learning, the time and place for it should not be during instructional time except to an extremely minimal degree. It is too easy to shirk educational responsibility with our wonderful technological resources. Too often I am seeing computer activities (and quite frankly, activity in general) becoming the ends rather than the means and our schools essentially becoming non-intellectual (even anti-intellectual) institutions. Activities should be carefully selected to support the learning of specifically defined concepts or skills -- and I think this constantly needs to be kept in mind. Attitudes toward learning and work are being carried directly into the workplace which is why employers are beginning to have such difficulty in finding employees who actually want to work when on the job! > >Having computers available after school for exploratory work or games during computer clubs should lend the appropriate balance to the situation.... > > > Nancy S. Strong, Librarian Lawton Intermediate School !% 104 Maple Street ! % Essex Junction, VT 05401 Just a few miles ! % 802-878-1388 from beautiful _________ nstrong@lawton.k12.vt.us ~~~~~ Lake Champlain ~~\~~~~~~~/~~