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8. The Impact of High Technology
Pages 35-38

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... Our school system will be completely changed in ten years."is In the 1960s, a Stanford University report stated: "Ten years from now, television will carry some part of the teaching of the great majority of school children in this nation, and it is also expected that television will make available at home to students of whatever age, a large part of the college curriculum."~6And in 1972, the Carnegie Commission predicted that by 1980 most colleges and universities would have devised adequate administrative and academic authority and procedures for the encouragement and appropriate utilization of instructional technology. i7 Clearly, none of these predictions has come true.
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From page 36...
... Office of Education phrases it: "Is education so immobile as to effectively resist all influence for significant innovation which is not based upon a labor intensive approach? " i~ This traditional labor intensive approach to education is reflected in the fact that only about 4 percent of total educational budgets are for materials, including textbooks.
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... They are beginning to provide challenge grants and equipment donations for centers that have the added attraction of being prominently named for the benefactor company. This type of visibility for a company providing modern equipment in a modern lab that carries its name encourages other companies to accept the challenge of setting up a lab.
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From page 38...
... equipment. If local needs require a breadth of offerings, however, field trips to industry, a co-op program and industrial internships for students, and visiting lecturers can all reduce the need for maintaining the very latest equipment.
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