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Use of Technology:

The students use computers in the Macintosh Language Arts Lab to access the internet and to word process their reports.

The Internet provides opportunities for individualized searches for information, and it is a cutting edge, content rich, and visually stimulating medium. Additionally, the Internet is time-efficient and offers far more updated information than the limited array of periodicals and bound volumes in the library of a typical public high school. The advent of the word processor simplifies the physical act of writing. Students with physical handicaps, poor handwriting skills, or coordination problems may for the first time feel freed from physical limitations to write more readily, producing written work that is longer, neater, more legible, and more substantive and fully developed. Students who have rebelled against the time-consuming and tedioius process of crossing out, drawing arrows, and recopying as they revise discover that the process of writing becomes more accessible.

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