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Card Design Winner Supt. Robert Swartxloff of High School District 156 presents checks to winners in the 1981 Christmas card contest. With Mm, from left, are Tracy Tteti, senior at West campus, first Teacher: "Computers Here To Stay" By Kurt Begalka SHAW MEDIA NEW? SERVICE T e a c h e r M a r l y s Newcome, a 13-year veteran at Harrison Elementary school, believes computers will become an integral part of education in the future. "I've aiways been in­ terested in computers," said the 55-year-old Ms. Newcome. "All I needed was an excuse, and the excuse was I wanted to help students learn." Newcome talked her husband into buying a computer for their Wood­ stock home; then she con­ vinced the school district to purchase one. Nobody's sorry. According to Supt. Roy Jones, the program is working out very well. Teachers and students alike are learning how to use the computer, and parents are very supportive. [, However,' Jones said the district has no immediate plans to buy more. First, they're expensive. Mrs. Newcome said the terminal, disk drive and screen in her classroom cost about $2,000. Second, Jones believes the best way to learn the basics is the traditional approach. He is afraid students will not take computer instruction seriously enough. However, there is no disputing the system's value as a learning tool for students. "They're going to be living in a world of computers," Jones said. Mrs. Newcome added, "Every job you go to now has some kind of keyboard." Approximately six to a dozen kids stay after school each day to do computer- related homework. Sure, some view it more as a game, but she believes some are really "turned on" by it. "They do it just because they want to. There's no test; no grade," Mrs. Newcome said. Chris Churchill, a sixth grade student in Mrs. Newcome's class, said he wants to go to college and become a computer programmer. "I've heard they make a lot of money," he said. Churchill and his friend Ray O'Brien find the com­ puter fun and interesting. They're favorite exercises are making pictures and correcting mistakes. To them it's just fun typing on the keyboard. Another favorite pastime is making music. "By coordinating letters with pitches and varying durations for notes, students can compose their own songs," Newcome said. A program she bought com- i~-- fWhdfcJMRlWW Spacemaker™ Microwave Oven with Automatic Cooking Control Model JVM62 • Extra-wide oven • Eye-level touch controls • Automatic Cooking Con­ trol takse the guesswork out of mlorowavtag --Humidity sensor senses steam from food and automatically sets time and power levels needed for cooking --MlcrdThermo meter'" temperature control measures internal food temperature and auto­ matically sets power levels needed to provide best results • Cook Code'" Control- provides a short-cut method to programming oooklng time and power level • Time of Day Clock • Time Cooking oontroUed by 90-minute. 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"They don't care if they make mistakes." It's the adults who seem to be more afraid. "Some still see it as the all- powerful computer," she added. Mrs. Newcome received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Illinois Institute of Technology, then did the "housewife scene" until 1967. At that time the big teacher crunch hit, and Mrs. Newcome returned to school. She received a master's degree in math education at Northern Illinois university, and went to work at Clarence Olson school. A year later she moved to Wonder Lake. Ms. Newcome teaches an o c c a s i o n a l c o m p u t e r workshop in her home and belongs to such clubs as the Northern Illinois Apple Users group. She relishes the challenge and the wonder that the machines present. "I think computers are here to stay," Newcome added. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for « man's upper cham­ ber, if he has com­ mon sense on the ground floor. -O.W. Holmes. Little John's 1211 N. River Rd. ~ McHenry j 385-2014 Ymi m tJIr. 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