set 1983: no. 1

'Who are you?' said the caterpillar. Alice replied rather shyly, 'I -- 1 hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least 1 know who 1 was when 1 got up this morning, but 1 must have changed several times since then. '
(Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)

Alice's reply to the caterpillar, is a poignant statement of the uncertainties young people face as they separate more completely than ever before from their emotional ties to parents, and as they establish an… Read more

Whatever else defines the truly computer-literate educator, he or she must be critically aware of the message that most educational software currently available is not worth the medium it is recorded on. Robert Purser, editor of an esteemed US microcomputer software directory, thinks that 95% of microcomputer programs should never have been written.
 

Despite hard times the information explosion continues. As a result, professional people who aim to be well informed and abreast of current developments find that the task becomes more burdensome with each passing day. An educator uses many resources - conferences and workshops, membership of professional associations, tertiary studies, advisory consultants, and reading. But over the past few hundred years, the main vehicle for professional growth has been the printed word and the evidence… Read more