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A multicolored educational van has joined traditional yellow school buses on the road as school opens this fall. But its cargo is computers, not children.
Potomac Edison’s new mobile computer classroom will be traveling throughout the utility’s service territory to demonstrate the most sophisticated educational technology available. PTAs, boards of education, teachers and community groups in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia may invite the mobile classroom to their meetings to view the possibilities of computer-interactive instruction.
Carrying 28 Apple IIGS computers, the Digicard Classroom Network and Imagewriter II printers, the van was created in response to the findings of a 1986 report by the National Task Force on Educational Technology.
“Research shows that computer
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