European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Baffle adults but not kids e 0 Var d r 0 t h Stein. _ t he new math is a so simple so very simple  a child can do it Quot the satirist Tom Lehrer Sang in the 1960s,. Maybe it has always been like this. Children seem to have easy Access to worlds unreachable to their elders they casually use what adults must wrestle with. Today that world happens to be electronic. Want to program a Var to record the news every night for five nights ask an adolescent. Want to set the digital watch alarm to go off at 6 30 a.m.? ask a 10-year old. Literacy May endangered today but not electronic literacy. At Bank Street College of education in new York the enter for children and technology studies How computers and electronics can be used in the classroom. A 1987 paper by two researchers at the Center William Talley and Cynthia Char documented How four boys and five girls Ages 9 and 10 taught themselves to use a laser video disk player and a video disk made for children. "fr.r. 7 Roi children create their own worlds with software like the playroom. Within 30 minutes of experimentation the children had not Only Learned to use the machine but How to play a disk in slow motion reverse and fast Forward. A a some children made up games  or running them backwards. Talley and Char wrote that later in class Quot children improvised silly dance Steps to represent each of the different options which one youngster would Call out at random shouting for exam ple fast Forward slow a reverse Quot freeze Quot for the children the world of the player was transferable. A Seymour a pert a mathematician Mit w to has been studying How children use computers to learn said children s Affinity for electronic objects was apparent. A kids have a fascination with the future a he said. Quot collectively and All Over the world they know this technology belongs to them.�?�. Electronic play is now a routine part of schooling. Eleven year old Murphy Stein s los Angeles Public school classroom last year contained one laser disk player 35 macintosh computers a few television monitors a tape player and a video camera. Quot every kid i know a Murphy said Quot feels comfortable with electronics a As for their Appeal Murphy seemed to confirm Papert s observation. Quot you can go into a whole different world when you re creating something on the computer for most children simple players and w atches and remotes Are approached As if they were objects in some vast video game. And electronic devices Are a despite adult fears a nearly  electronic buttons allow immediate play. Consider the controls of an Ordinary digital watch. They usually involve a menu each Choice opens a series of other choices. The concept is simple even though the execution can seem almost ridiculously intricate to an adult. A Why is this such a big turn on for children a Papert asked. New York times a. A. At a glance Strait of Gilhar altar Atlantic Ocean Algeria Western Sahara Jav Morocco size 172,413 Square Miles bigger than California population 25,380,000 1989 estimate language arabic berber French Spanish currency dirham is 8 dirham and 33 Canlima i Ravel restrictions valid transport no visa needed overview this mountainous country occupies a strategic site on the Strait of Gibraltar which has Given it importance both militarily and As a trading Center Between Valriea and Europe. Mor Romeo is ruled by a King acid adheres to the islamic traditions of its berber and arabic people. Many Are skilled horsemen and craftsmen. Today its Economy is dependent on tourism livestock mining of phosphates and farming a grapes dates and grains. Its climate is generally mild. Ills a fact moors from what a is now Morocco conquered Spain and Portugal and ruled them until 1492. Both. Spain and France invaded Morocco in the Early 1900s. Morocco gained its Independence in 1956 after serving As a a or Allied base in world War ii. But two Small cities it m Morocco s coast Ceuta and Melilla still belong to  questions a what fills the cavities when oils extracted from the Earth might there eventually be a Large scale drop of the Earth s crust i the replacement could be air water natural Gas or Din says or. James Tafton a professor of Petroleum engineering at the Colorado school of mines in Golden. Colo. He knows of Only two areas where subsidence or settling has created serious problems. In the heart the first Case occurred in the 1940s near Long Beach Calif where the underground cavities filled with dirt As the weight or the soil above pressed Down on the Reservoir where the Oil used to be a similar situation is found in a desolate area Wisl of Bakersfield calf in both cases conf Ion says the settling had to be controlled with the injection of water usually the strength of the Oil bearing Rock itself is great enough to carry the weight of what is above it when the Oil is removed he adds. Mew York times dues cancer Ever develop institutes of health in Bethesda my. Statistically heart cancer is listed with All cancers of the soft tissues. For 1989, the Overall incidence of these cancers was Only 2.1 eases per 100.g00 people in the United slates. And in a stud done from 1973 to 1 i a ? of 2.i j to caves of cancer of the met tissues  heart Only 23. Or jul 1 percent were heart cancer