European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Baffle adults but not kids Edward Rothstein a a he new math is a so simple so very simple that Only a child can do it a the satirist Tom Chr or 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 Oft at 6 30 a.m.? ask a 10-Ycar old. Literacy May be endangered today but not electronic literacy. At Bank Street College of education in new York 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 Girts Ages 9 and 10 taught themselves to use a laser video disk player and a video disk made for children. 1 a b c Dulje i amp h n 0 p or t u now to k 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. Some children games freezing images or running them backwards. Talley and Char wrote that later in class a children improvised silly dance Steps to represent each of the different options which one youngster would Call out at random shouting for exam pie fast Forward a a slow a a reverse a a freeze a a a for the children the world of the player was transferable. Seymour Papert a mathematician at Mit who has been studying How children use com. Up tors to learn said children a Affinity for electronic objects was apparent. A kids have a fascination with the future Quot he said. Quot collectively and All Over the world they know this technology belongs to electronic play is now a routine part or schooling. Eleven year old Murphy steins 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 1 know Quot Murphy said a feels ,. Comfortable with As for their Appeal Murphy seemed to confirm Paperth a observation. A a you can go into a whole different world when you re creating something on the for most children simple players and watches and remotes Are approached As if they were objects in some vast video game. And. Electronic devices Are a a despite adult fears a nearly indestructible. Moreover 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 Chil a Drin a Papert asked naw York times a a at a glance Morocco size 172,413 Square Miles bigger than California population 25,380,000 1989 estimate language arabic berber French Spanish currency dirham $1=8 dirham and 33 Cantina travel restrictions valid transport no visa needed overview this Moun parlous country occupies a strategic site on the Strait of Gibraltar which has Given it importance both militarily and As a trading Center Between Africa and Europe. Morroco is ruled by a King and 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. Its a fact moors from what 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 serv ing As a major Allied base in world War ii. But two Small cities on Morocco a coast Ceuta and Melilla still belong to Spain any questions q i what fills the cavities when Oil is extracted Frum the Earth might there eventually be a Large scale drop of the Earth a crust a the replacement could be air water natural Gas or dirt says or. James Crafton 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. A dues cancer Ever develop in the Hearl k i 1 hero is Siks a thing As cancer of the heart hut la is extreme rare according to the statistics Branch of the National cancer Institute part of the in the first Case occurred in the 1940s near Long Beach Calif where the underground cavities filled with Din As the weight of the soil above pressed Down on the Reservoir where the Oil used to be. A similar situation is found in a desolate area West of Bakersfield Calif. In both cases Crafton 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. Now pc re Timos 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 cases per 100,goo people in the United Stales. And in a study done from 1973 to 1977 of 2,000 cases of cancer of the Soli tissues and heart Only 23, or about i percent were Hearl cancer. V in t Page 10
