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Japan: Meeting the challenge of computers in education

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The conditions that prepare the way for integrating computers in the curriculum are being successfully addressed in Japan. Computers have definitely found their way into the classroom, and more computers will be purchased by the Japanese government in the next year or two. The groundwork has also been laid in teacher training and in upgrading the quality of instructional software. The issue now lies in being able to teach not onlyabout computers, but how to teach effectivelywith computers. The next challenge for Japanese education is to focus on policy and efforts aimed at putting the equipment, the software guidelines, and the teacher education programs to work.

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  1. the Instructional Technology Program of the School of Education at California State University in San Bernardino, USA

    Rowena Santiago (Assistant Professor and co-ordinator)

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She was in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1993 as an exchange professor at Yasuda Women's University.

The author would like to thank Mr. Toru Iiyoshi of the International Christian University in Tokyo; Ms. Mochizuki of the Center for Educational Technology in Tokyo; and the director and staff of the Center for Educational Computing in Tokyo for their assistance with research materials.

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Santiago, R. Japan: Meeting the challenge of computers in education. ETR&D 41, 111–114 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02297516

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