A pilot project to
explore the use of
microcomputers in
public classrooms will
be implemented by the
Ministry of Education
in September.

Education Minister Brian
Smith announced today that
100 Apple I~ micro-
computers will be installed
in 12 school districts at a cost
of approximately $200,000.

Purpose of the pilot
project is to obtain
provincial information about
the value of microcomputers
as a teaching/learning aid
for instruction, tutorials and
enrichment, and to develop
computer literacy among
students — knowledge of
how computers work and
how they affect everyday
living.

School districts taking
part in the pilot project are
Kimberley, Castlegar,
Vernon, Delta, Maple
Ridge, Howe Sound, Peace
River North, Greater
Victoria, Nanaimo, Terrace,
Richmond, and Penticton.

The education minister
said that the planned usage
for the minicomputers would
be 48 per cent in elementary
schools, 31 per cent in junior
secondary schools and 21-
per cent in senior secondary.
About 39 per cent of usage
will be for tutorial and
special education, 28 per
cent for enrichment, and the
remainder for general
literacy and computer
science studies.

The Apple U micro
computers are part of the
newest generation of
computers. They consist of a
typewriter-like keyboard, a
television screen to display
words and pictures, and a
memory.

Members of the public
will have an opportunity to
see the microcomputers in
operation at the Pacific
National Exhibition. They
will be demonstrated in a
simulated classroom in the
B.C. Building. part of an
education exhibit sponsored
jointly by the Ministry of
Education and a numbcr of
the province’s post-
secondary institutions.

The microcomputer
project was first announced
at a famuilharization§ con-
ference for 300 teachers and
administrators in March
Since then a three-day
conference for supervisors in
the participating districts has
been held A weck-long in-
service traming session for
all involved = classroom
teachers will take place at
UBC between August 4 and

- CS-Wedmesday, August 20, 1980 - North Shore News

Dr. Walter Hardwick,
Deputy Minister of
Education, set the tone for
the future use of micro-
computers in the classroom
when he spoke at the March
conference. ‘‘Micro-
computers are a new

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