A personal view by Tim O'Shea of computers in education
The first of six programmes Promises, Promises....
As teachers have pointed out: 'They gave us the machines before anyone knew what to do with them.'
Tim O'Shea questions the motives for putting micros into schools and suggests what is needed for the computer to live up to its educational promise. Film editor HOWARD SHARP Producer IAN WOOLF
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