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Professor And Computer Consultant: Jon Sutherland has written more than 60 books over the past 10 years on a wide range of subjects. These include transport, sport, business education and children's adventure stories. He now lives in Suffolk.
Rana K. Williamson PhD, holds degrees from Southwest Texas State University and Texas Christian University. An historian, she authored Wlien the Catfish Had Ticks: Texas Drought Humor and Putting the Pieces Together: A Technological Guide for Educators. The native Texan works as a professor and computer consultant in Ft. Worth.
Potential applications of the computer made possible by microelectronics include a small computer in every home or a pocket computer terminal that can be connected to a powerful central computer via the telephone. Such devices may be used to solve our numerical problems (e.g., income tax, or our bank balance) or as a creative tool to relate our knowledge and experiences to our future actions.
Understanding is relative. It spirals upward with each successive year of study. After the first year, parents often begin to seek more scientific information.
A real problem in developing a parent study group is to find leadership. Child study requires know-how. Someone who can teach the technique is needed as a consultant. The Institute of Child Study at the University of Maryland under the direction of Dr. Daniel Prescott offers this consultant service. State departments of education and psychology and guidance departments of colleges and universities should develop this kind of expert consultant service, for rural as well as for urban groups. |
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