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14 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, March $5, 1985 Smarter machines (From page 9) changing your curve. The argument the mastery learning people use is: Are we, as teachers, happy with the tant to adopt the method in its text book form. "For me to send home a test paper with, say, 65 per cent of the answers correct, and then put a course and start into it and see what happens. It takes a tremendous amount of time, again depending on how you want to tackle it." fact that half wne people | have learned the work? ie i pg es Clearly, however, Mr. If you're happy with the of the hook. But I'ddoit Sharpe believes the normal curve, then a the drop of a hat if 20 results are worth the ef- you're saying to parents, teachers on staff decided fort. 'I'm interested in 'I'm teaching half the do it too." kids and I'm interested students who come into my class.' But as soon as you alter your curve and change the average to the over -70s, then you're teaching a higher percentage of kids." Changing to a pure mastery learning ap- proach, where passing requires a mark of at least 70, also poses a communications pro- blem with parents. It is partly for this reason | that Mr. Sharpe is reluc- He cautions, however, that the development of the necessary test material can be time consuming. "I think what should be stressed to teachers is that this isn't something you can do in a year. There's no way you can convert all your courses to mastery learning in that amount of time. But an ex- perienced teacher could take one class or one in trying to get them to learn as much as they can. The students who take advantage of mastery learning know you're concerned about them, or you wouldn't bother with all this." Mr. Sharpe would like to extend the approach- with his computer application--to his data processing class. Even- tually, if mastery learn- ing and the use of com- puters becomes more We're not sure just what happened to this ice hut on Port Perry bay, but part of a wall is all that remained Sunday afternoon. Sections of this hut are frozen into the lake and getting them out before the spring thaw could be very difficult. widespread, he foresees new possibilities. HK RK RICK HK ies Joe hut trashed, | TA banks of questions. In J 53 AP AR I FR ANK' S fact, we're starting to do : that now. The business ¥ rors area frd up DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC F RESTAURANT J uot questions. once. VAIUARDICS STOIC 7 65000500. 194 King St. W. t the th i ) -- CAESAREA -- you've pu, them on Lhe Uxbridge 852-5291 Oshawa 579-8752 |) LLBO computer you can An Ajax area man got And according to 214 Dundas St. E., % reproduce them in dif- arudesurprise last week Regional Police, what Whitby 668-7797 Come and Dance ferent rotations. If it when he arrived at his the thieves didn't take, to the Country {mastery learning) goes, ice hut to do a little they siashol and left on Open Weekdays including SUNDAY! x it will go with people who fishing. e lake beside the hut. --- -- " Sounds of are interested in the 0, A located on the The hut itself received A By Appointment Only PARTNERS . computer aspect of it, west side of Washburn about $60 damage from HK RK MIC | IN CRIME" 'because once you get Island had beensmashed the vandalism. | that set up, it makes it all open and several articles On February 24, | FRI. MARCH 8th a heck of a lot easier." worth almost $400 were Durham Police say a | Mr. Sharpehasbeena pissing. Blackstock area man teacher at PPHS since SAT., MARCH 9th 1967. 9PM tol AM. For Information Call: 986-5553 These included two propane tanks and a heater, an ice auger, stove and assorted fishing gear. reported his 440 model Kawasaki motorcycle was stolen from his pro- perty at Concession 5, Lot 11. 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