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Show ' ''!!":'''' ' School ( and ti Home 7 by Dr. DarylJ. McCarty yf Executive Director JL Utah Education Association .4lfAf researcher, said teachers did complain occasionally oc-casionally about class disruptions and computer breakdowns. ! lull the high schools in this country have com puters they use tor in slructional purposes. There's no doubt about it: Kducators' interest in the use of computers for leaching is on the in crease. A sizeable group of teachers here in Utah have been purchasing computers with their personal funds and using those computers in their classrooms. Computers are becoming almost as familiar a sight in school classrooms as blackboards black-boards and globe maps. A study by the U.S. Department of Education found that about one of every four pubJic schools in the United States currently has at least one microcomputer or computer terminal for instructional-use .by. students . , Many teachers wonder about the effectiveness of computers as instructional in-structional tools, while others are sold on them. Recently, a headline in a Davis County newspaper hailed the beginning of a teacher training program in the use of computers. Other Utah school districts are launching similar training efforts. Although kids consider computers "fun," they aren't toys. A researcher who reported on a California computer -assisted instruction in-struction program in elementary grades said she was particularly impressed with results in mathematics. Other subjects in the program there were reading in grades 3; language arts in grades 3-6; 3-6; and a final year reading for comprehension. com-prehension. Marjorie Ragosta, the |