Summary

A booklet, entitled 'The Sunrise School Day '88', Melbourne, 1988', describing the status at the end of 1988 of the joint program known as the 'Sunrise School'.

This project was a joint project between the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the Museum of Victoria to develop a model of teaching for students to use new information and communication technologies.

The booklet summarised related activities in 1988; provided a bibliography of papers; described new Sunrise Centres; described the 'Boxer' computational environment developed by Andrea diSessa and Harold Abelson; the Sunrise School music project of Kevin Purcell and Andrew Brown; 'Australia's biggest family photo album' by Euan McIllivary, Museum of Victoria; and 'Supermap'.

The booklet includes the Sunrise School's outreach program for 1989; a list of participants at the Sunrise School Day held at Museum of Victoria on 12 December,1989 and the program for that day.

The booklet includes three photographs: 'Dr Ocko, demonstrating LEGO-Logo technology' and two of unidentified young students with technical computing devices.

This object forms part of the Sunrise Collection which includes educational robots, software and multimedia recordings of teachers and students mainly in Victoria exploring new possibilities with computer programming.

Physical Description

An A5-sized booklet of six white A4 paper sheets, folded to form 24 pages with text printed in black on all faces; stapled at the spine to a folded cover of light card printed with a yellow, blue and black logo of a smiling sun accompanied by text in black ink on a bright yellow background. There are three black-and-white photographs and one diagram set in the text.

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