For questions 19-24, choose from the sentences A-H the one which best fits the gap.
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The Online School
Computers have brought new ways of working into schools, and not only in the form of the subject Information Technology, which teaches students how to use and programme computers. Peter Walters visited Trenton Community School. (0) There, the educational potential of computers is exploited to the full. In a classroom, Philip and his mates are making paper aeroplanes like schoolboys down the ages.
. And they’re not fooling around. They’re studying physics and aeronautics in a pleasant way. During the school break, however, they head towards the learning resource centre.
. They find Jane hunting through back issues of The Times on the internet in preparation for her paper about the Social Charter. Benjamin is at work composing his personal statement that will be included in his university entrance form. Next to him, Victoria is adding the finishing touches to her latest computer-generated painting for art class. Ian is using Wikipedia to find out about the environmental impact of oil-tanker disasters. But he was also able to go a step further. He used email to get the latest from campaigners at Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.
. Computers are permanently online and are an invaluable addition to the school’s resources. Back in class, the teachers often tell students to look up a word during lessons, watch a clip from YouTube for discussion, or make an impressive graph. Peter says: “We’re doing a project on Japan’s economic performance. When we come to study its climate, we’ll send emails to exchange weather data with friends from Tokyo.” The students, however, do not find any of this in the least remarkable. For them, there is nothing new about new technology.
. They have used them in primary school and at home. And although parents seem to think so, they are not used only for playing games or wasting time on Facebook. Charles, for instance, says: “Basically I learned to read using a computer. If I wanted to play a game, I had to read what was on the screen. But the game improved my multitasking and motor skills hugely.” Jonathan relies on his computer for designing artwork like his family’s birthday cards.
. “Sometimes, there are things in algebra or biology that teachers go over only once, and I don’t understand them. But I can use a programme I’ve got at home which can explain it again and again until I do,” says Sarah. The computer pronounces words so students can say them in French without everybody laughing, teaches them to spell through games, puts clips in stories if they’re hopeless at drawing and of course takes some of the chore out of homework assignments.
. “You can’t really ask a computer questions,” Pia says, “it just asks you them.” Her view seems to be universally shared. “It would get totally boring,” says Chris. “You’d switch the machine off, or yourself.”
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