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10 Technology encourages students to explore By SARA HOLLAND Special to the Beaver When it comes to learning, any method should be used to make stuâ€" dents understand a concept or idea. And increasingly, computers are playing a major role in the learning proâ€" cess, a group of 160 teachers and eduâ€" cators from the around the world were cators from the around the world were told on the weekend. The twoâ€"day confernce at River Oaks School was sponsored by the Halton Board of Education and repreâ€" sentatives from Apple Canada. The purpose of the session was to discuss technology and restructuring education for the 2 1st Century. Educators from as far away as Venezuela, Australia, Greece and Romania, attended this first annual event that focused on "engaging, enabling and empowering students" for a changine world. River Oaks Public School, which has a comprehensive CD ROM system, as well as a computer link to a global information network, is considered to be on the cutting edge of computerizaâ€" tion in North America. The twoâ€"day conference, included workshops on topics from computer learning for primary and junior high grades, to electronic graphics and music technology in the classroom. Dr. Brendan Kelly, former math coordinator for Halton Board of Education, a University of Toronto math professor and researcher of junior high students at the school, spoke on his findings of the effects of technology on mathematics. By using overheads, films and a computer, Kelly explained to the audiâ€" ence that the oldâ€"fashioned way of simâ€" ply telling students formulas and expecting them to understand and be able to apply them, is not the most sucâ€" cessful way to teach math. He sald students should be able to see how it works and be invited to disâ€" cover for themselves. Props, such as a jar to explain Pi can be used, but comâ€" puters open an adventurous world that can make learning fun. Sex assault charges facing local man Kelly said he knows how controverâ€" sial technology can be for parents. When the handâ€"held calculator was introduced into the school system in the 1975, parents were outraged. It was the first change to mathematics since the beginning of the century and many felt the oldâ€"fashioned methods were best. He said these people were living in "a fool‘s paradise" since the old curricuâ€" lum left so many students mathematiâ€" cally illiterate. Today, he said the tragic reality is that students want quick answers, but show little desire to actually understand how to arrive at these solutions. However, he said when computers are used, light bulbs go on and the stuâ€" dents became immersed in how uncomâ€" plicated the application of formulas can be. He said the benefit of computers is that they are interactive. "What I discovered as I walked around the class is that kids were disâ€" covering, they asked questions, they A 34â€"yearâ€"old Oakville man has been charged with sexually assaulting his former commonâ€"law wife‘s adoâ€" lescent daughter and teenaged son over a fourâ€"year period. Halton Regional Police said the offences occurred while the man was involved in a commonâ€"law relationâ€" ship with the victims‘ mother between January 1988 and 1991 in Oakville. During that period, police said the man performed a number of sexual acts on the victims. Police said the incidents occurred when the daughter, who is now 14 years old, was 10 to 13 years old. The son was a teenager at the time of the alleced incidents. The 34â€"yearâ€"old man is charged with gross indecency, sexual interferâ€" ence, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, two counts of sexâ€" ual assault and two counts of sexual assault while threatening bodily harm. He is being held in police custody for a bail hearing. Bank‘s camera leads to arrest of two teens A brief audition before a bank video camera ended with the arrest of two 16â€"yearâ€"old males in connection with a breakâ€"in at an Oakville home last November. Shortly after the breakâ€"in the youths, both from Mississauga, were filmed by a bank video camera using a bank card stolen from the Oakville home. The breakâ€"in occurred on Nov. 9th, of last year, at a Dunvegan Avenue home. Among the items stolen was a bank card. Halton police caught up to the pair Jan. 29th after they were arrested by Peel police for an unrelated matter. The two youths cannot be named under the Young Offenders Act. Both face a charge of break, enter River Oaks conference attracted educators from around the world expiored, N€ $a1d Kelly said that parents and teachers do too much "telling" and not enough "discovering." Once the students begin to understand, they suddenly stop lookâ€" ing for quick answers, he said. He advised math teachers to stay away from formal notation â€" especially when first introducing formulas. He encouraged them to involve estimation activities, use objects to demontrate concents and involve students in invesâ€" tigations. He said teachers are often too conâ€" sumed with covering the curriculum to introduce activities that would show, not tell. While he said he understands that teachers are only doing their jobs, he would like to see a new curriculum not tell. While he sarc that teachers are only he would like to see a built around computers Technology allows students to look at things differently and some computer gameâ€"like programs force kids to really think and explore, Kelly said. 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