On 23 July 1980, high school principals called for the provision of computers for every high school in Australia. It paved the way for the use of technology in education that has continued unabated
High school principals have called on the federal government to consider providing computers for every high school in Australia.
A conference of the Australian High School Principals' Association in Hobart resolved last week to ask the Minister for Education, Mr Fife, to consider the move. Pupils from Newtown High School took their 'Apple' computer to the Newtown Senior Citizens Centre, to show the residents some of the new technology used to teach in schools today."The association would see this initiative as similar to the successful funding of science facilities in the 1960s," the resolution said.
According to the newly elected president of the association, Mr Owen Eden, the provision of computers should be considered to be as important as the science block program because of the great value of computers as aids to learning and research.
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