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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What's the next question they're asking people? Yeah. Does it ever say take me to your leader? I became involved with a one of its kind teaching tool today at the wallet acres elementary school in walnut Creek. It's called a computer math lab sort

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of school. Within a school promoted, organized and paid for entirely by the parents. The P. T. A. Some 90 parents have volunteered to staff the room six days a week. The key component, a computer which is linked to the educational computer in the Lawrence Hall of

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Science at the University of California in Berkeley. All the school Children from first grade through the sixth are using the lab and they're learning logic by playing games with the computer. They're also learning to think of computers as tools instead of remote Frankenstein monsters. Besides the

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computer terminal, the lab features a teletype writer donated by Western Union That is connected with another school about three miles away. Students send messages to one another. Still another advantage of the lab. Full time volunteer and former teacher helping the Children learn the metric system and

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fractions. But the big attraction is the computer. What's happening here is that the kids are fighting out that computers are not ugly mechanical monsters. But fun Mike Johnstone Channel four News