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Show ‘Angel’ Production Thursday The 10th annual production of the Lit tlest Angel’ by students at the BYL Provo ecernted by Heavenly Fath emonstration School will be presented Thursday at the St. Francis Schoo!. 930 F said. final aat the current because a new school ” N. Provo The public is e 10am. and7 pr the Wasatch Elementary SX il is presently under construction play lasts about 30 t Instructor Cathie Upstill The her ninth year of the 4 large number retarded and multiply handic apped u dents from Provo and Nebo School Districts attending the special school are involved in the production The play. written originally by Charles Tazewell, has been adaptedfor the schou production by Barbara Merrell and Ber nice Walch, both staff members Th revolves around a little boy w ficulty adjusting to his new life angel His behavior causes great among all the other angels in hea he is granted one smail wish brown box As a gift to the Baby r as an oncern ve his Ss. this box is school is also a training facility for Students studying to become Upstil and Mrs Ned Downey of Payson plays the Little Angel Mary AnnSorensen. daughter of Mr and Mrs Fukan Sorensen of Springville s the role of the Guardian Angel Russell Swe on. son of Mr and Mrs. Jack Swenson of Spanish Fork. plays the Under standing Angel Lynda Jacobson. a 17-year-old student from Provo, is narrator for the show, this is the first time that a Demonstration School student has had this part, Upstill A college student usua lly takes this Heavenly Messenger. on stage Halvorsen, Richard dehumanizing force in uses the computer to overcome their prejudices and get actively involved in developing the use of computers are used properly for teaching. That's the opinion of Dr. Wendell Hall, an associate professor of Spanish at Brigham Young University and the newly-elected president of a group of language teachers throughout the Paul Elton, Da y triangle Searle and Steven Travis Bosweil Brandon Weight. cymbals, all other students are in the heavenly choir Upstill said that students in Jim Murphy's class handmade all invit2tious sent out, cleaned, mendedand ironedall the costumes: and will operate the stag ing. lighting and slide projector during the performance Other school staff members assisting in the production are Bob Beecher. Julie Christensen, Josephine Cunningham Anita Reid, Eva Shelley. Leona Steele ly @tamm Several 0 assistedinthepr HOLDINGTHEIR gifts for Baby Jesus in the play, “The Littlest Angel,” are Mary Ann Sorensen,left, as the Guardian Angel; Danny Downey, center, as the Littlest Angel, and Russell Swenson as the Understanding Angel Z © N1AI SHOP MONDAY-SATURDAY10 A.M.-10 P.M. Many see the Dr. Hall con- teach by putting lessons microcomputer as a ona television screen and threat to the teachers in Dr. Hall was recently allowing students to the classroom. Hall, on named the first president answerquestionsdirectly the other hand, views the of AMPL (Association on the screen with a microcomputer in a diffor Microcomputers keyboard. ferentlight. Programming in The push of a button “T see it as supportive Languages) at a conven- will call up learning aids rather than competitive,” he said. “The tion of foreign language on the screen. teachers in Atlanta, Ga TICCIT courses have microcomputer can be a At the convention, Dr been designed for English tool for teachersjust like Hall and other BYU grammar, composition the overhead projector or professors demonstrated and critical reading; the blackboard frees the techniques being basic math; Spanish; instructor to do more developed at the univer- German, French, and teaching and spend less sity to use the microcom- Italian. Other courses are time providing routine learningaids. It definiteputers for foreign being written. language education. BYU Before the microcom- ly won't eliminate the is one of the nation's puters can be used by teacher’ 7 role, but it will leaders in this kind of teachers, the lessons changeit. The vision of development have to be organized and Although AMPLis in put into the computer's microcomputers for its infancy, Dr. Hall language,justlike a text education borders on the incredible. Johnny carhopestheidea will catch book must be wriiten ries home from school, on as rapidly as has the before it can be used. “personal” computer. Dr. Hall has already instead of an armful of Madereadily available developed several books, a floppy disc, the about two years ago, programs for practice in memory record of the microcomputers now Spanish translation, microcomputer. help almost one million reading, listening com- At home, he puts the Americans to manage prehension skills and con- disc in the computer and studies the lessons on the family budgets, maintain versation. a balanced checkbook, And work is now _un- television screen, workkeep records and enter- derway to adapt the TIC- ing sample problems with tain themselves with im- CIT lessons, which are his typewriter-like aginative games that go generated by a central keyboard and getting his far beyond the standards computer, to the “‘per- answers immediately. That kind of teaching sonal” computer format homevideo gamefare. Dr.Hall has been work- whichwill allow them to system has already roven itself through ing on developing be used anywhere. ICCIT. It can be effecWith TICCIT already programs to teach Spanish with the tested and in use, BYUis tive. And the technology microcomputer for the in a good position to lead to extend the system into past year. The same the way in computer- the living room is programscan be adapted aided instruction using available now. Dr. Hall says the chalmicrocomputers. to other languages. Dr. Hall says the lenge now is for Computer - aided teaching, even in problem nowis trying to educators, especially humanities courses, is convince humanities those outside the scienprofessors and other tific fields, to keep up not new at BYU. The university teachers not accustomed with the coming explopioneered the TICCIT to using technical equip- sion in microcomputer (Time-shared Interacti ment in the classroom use. tinues, ing to advancethe use of microcomputers in language education Unlike its cumberexpensive predecessors, the microcomputer is small and mobile, inexpensive (around $1,000 for the basic unit) and ideally suited for the mass market. Its acceptance on the market has been phenomenal. According to Dr. Hall, it won'tbe longbefore the microcomputer, which can turn an ordinary television setinto a video display terminal with extensive computing capacities, is as common in the American home ‘as the telephones to which they will often be attached in orderto ‘talk’ to other computers.” It sounds like science but Shanna Charlene Chipman. and Jerome Miera, John Gam: education,” country who are organiz- fiction, Palmer Roberts. right now to make sure Interactive Computer that the age of the comthe personal computers Controlled Information puterin education hasardont become a Television) system which rived computers, teachers in all disciplines need to some, Deidra Mary, Radd Wolfgramm. Joseph. Angels Personal Computers Accepted By Public, Educators Alike With the growing popularity of ‘‘personal’ Utah—Page37 Jarvis as Gatekeeper. Julie Chappell e will Danny Downey. thefive-year-old son of Mr December 12. 1979 THE HERALD Prove part Other parts are portrayed by Scott education be presented Wednesd iy “the 500 children at Wasatch Elementary School Wednesday, the microcomputer is here. The ‘‘personal’’ computers are popular with small businesses and are gaining popularity in the home where they can be used to manage the household as well as for entertainment. The next breakthrough for microcomputers will be in education, says Dr. Hall, whether teachers like it or not. In fact, microcomputers are already gaining wide acceptance in math and science courses in all ievels of education. But nonscientific areas are going to have to keep up, or face the consequences. “Tf the older teacher or professoris notwilling to investigate the proper use of microcomputers for teaching, then the commercial interests who don’t have the proper UDGET STORE >. 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