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Vancouver schools — In West - Vancouver School District, a survey of teachers found that 75 per cent used computers for their own work, such as mark- ing, creating lesson plans ard designing tests. The school board even introduced.a payroll deduc- tion scheme to encourage teachers to purchase their own personal computer, © According to West Vancouver. Schoo! -Board’s ‘computer coor- dinator, Peter Minshull, when it came time to integrate computers inte the school’ room, “We took the philosophy that.-in the real world, computers affect everything... that the teacher should look at the real world and integrate it (computer) into. all areas rather than using it as a sep- arate strand of study.”’ With this in mind, keyboarding is taught to children in grades three - and four. They learn to type ‘‘as quickly’ as they can ‘handwrite,’’ Minshull says. In later grades, they write’ regularly in the computer lab. Next year, students at the grade .six level will be learning about data bases, spread sheets and doing some computer math. Once the students hit the sec- ondary years their options expand to the computer’s more formal applications, such as programming and business uses, or to newer areas of desk-top publishing, or computer assisted orchestration. There is even a Japanese word- processing prograrn in Asia Pacific © studies which teaches the Japanese language. By the time students graduate and enter a post secondary in-. stitute such as Capilano College, most of them are proficient in keyboarding and basic word- processing. Some will already have worked with software specific to _music . department, . “their area of study. Capilano -College students will | “have the benefit of using com-- puters in many non-traditional areas of study, thanks to a 1986 grant of $400,000 from - the Miaistry of Advanced Education and Job Training. = This grant. funded the develop- _ ment of computer resources in areas such as. the theatre. arts (where directing can be taught“us- ing computer assisted animation), commercial music (in’ composition and ear training), and the sciences. Computers are .also- employed by the students for self-testing. = - Mike Reveley, coordinator of Capilano College’s commercial heralds the computer in the music classroom. “Instant feedback is a valuable 3 tool,’’ he remarks, and while there -. will- always be. purists, computer assisted orchestration and com- position make some - technical music tasks less laborious. ‘‘Even our ‘legitimate composer’ (at Capilano College) went out. and bought one,”’ he muses. In the sciences, computers are programmed to simulate expensive - Scientific and medical equipment or graphics programs are used to | illustrate difficult concepts. ; The college’s coordinator of chemistry, physics’ and geology, Penny Lacouteur, favors the use of computer ‘software for ‘“‘things yo can’t do with a book. With raphe ics you can actually sce it switch from two to three dimen- sions....What it means in terms of © teaching is that you can show things that previously it would take a long time ta skow.”’ She says that the software also reduces the amount of arithmetic See Engilsh Page 41..— _ : | DECOR ACRYLIC BLOCKS “Light Years” ahead in flexivility, installation and | design. Available in subtle shades of green, blue, peach, tose & crystal clear. Standard size 6Vs"" ‘sq. A” Di DRYWALL 4.77 4x8 SHT. SIDING PLYWCOD 4'x8'x38" T1111 PF VINYL 499) GYPROC 4 Ideal for laundry room, SHT. garages & cottages. DECKOTE —