Training Elementary School Teachers to Use Computers—with Emphasis on Logo

Edward J. Davis, Jim Helms, F. A. Norman, João Pedro da Ponte · The Arithmetic Teacher · 1984

For the past two summers we have taught a two-week “computer camp” for teachers of grades one through seven. The teachers, who were paired by grade level (one pair at each computer), spent approximately three hour each day in “class” at an Apple II+ microcomputer and averaged another two hours a day in individual practice. Participant were selected on a first-come, first-served basis in response to announcements sent to area schools. The most recent camp session included eleven elementary and four middle school teacher and was taught by a university faculty member and four graduate assistants in the mathematics education department.

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