Teacher’s Guide to Computers in the Elementary School
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Date
2005-01
Authors
Moursund, David G.
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D. Moursund
Abstract
January 2005 reprint of Dave Moursund’s 1980 booklet. This booklet is written for preservice and inservice elementary school teachers. Thus we will assume that you fall into one of those categories and speak directly to your needs. We will
assume that you have used a calculator; it is desirable that you also have had some hands-on
experience with a computer. A half hour's interaction with a computer will add substantial
meaning to what follows.
Many elementary schools have access to computers for instructional purposes. In the next
few pages we describe a hypothetical interaction between a fourth grade student and a computer.
The computer might be a self-contained microcomputer, costing $1,500 or less. Or the student
may be interacting with a very large computer via telephone line to a terminal in the classroom.
As you walk into the fourth grade classroom you see a student just sitting down in front of a
TV set with a typewriter keyboard. You look over the student's shoulder at the TV display
screen.
Description
49 p. January 2005 reprint of Dave Moursund’s 1980 booklet. Copyright © 2005 David Moursund. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Permission is granted to make use of this document for non-commercial educational purposes by schools, school districts, colleges, universities, and other non-profit preservice and inservice teacher education organizations and groups. Additional free materials written by David Moursund are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/Free.html.