Swiss Group of International Schools
I was invited to present on the Role of Computers in the School Curriculum
| When | Feb 04, 1984 |
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| Where | Lausanne |
This was my report in the Computers in the Curriculum newsletter of July 1984:
SWITZERLAND
The Swiss Group of International Schools invited a representative of the Project to go and speak to them at a day's workshop in Lausanne. I was asked to go, flying out on Friday, speaking on Saturday and flying back on Sunday. The experience was quite revealing about the state of computer education in these independent schools and showed how much we gain in this country from centrally funded resources. Each school was very dependent on the enthusiasm of one or two individuals, and the workshop I attended was one of the rare opportunities for these teachers to share their experience. They began by discussing the ways they had introduced computer literacy classes, a matter of some interest to me since in the dim and distant past I had helped to set up a MODE 3 Computer Studies CSE. Then I presented a talk on "The Role of Computers in the School Curriculum". Most of what I said was an attempt to describe the strengths and weaknesses of the computer compared with other resources and was illustrated with a look at the Sailing Ships Game and Reverberation Times -both good units for audience participation! Most schools had Apple equipment and were still buying Apples, although a few were interested in BBC micros. Some schools were well endowed with DEC equipment - generally those with DEC executives amongst the parents. There was a suggestion that they might ask one of us to present a session at the European Conference of International Schools - perhaps someone else's turn?
Richard Millwood
These were the slides (overhead transparencies) I prepared for my talk:
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