Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 72

ji yyr yi' 9' 'y-yy-y j.i jr nr jii "fl- i 'V" 'T'l I iT'Tri'l 11 "I' I I I I I I 1 1 I T1 I 1 1 F6 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Sunday, December 18, 1994 Cuba Schools' Technology Taps Students Into World A "Most of the stuff is; hands-on. We don't have to be doing it out of text-! books." i Keith Suazo, 4th grade ff -Nt tf'i V. I CONTINUED FROM PAGE F1 "Before," Gonzales says, I'd have to rely on the chalkboard, and I'd draw a solar flare. Now they can see this online and on disc. It's almost like being there." Five satellite dishes are distributed among the district's elementary school, middle school and high school.

The high school's library is filled with books, but it also has become the center for the school district's main computer server. The librarian also has become the keeper of the satellite menu and laser disc and CD-ROM libraries. Four days a week, the students in Lloyd Peiia's combined third, fourth and fifth grades tune in to math and Spanish on the TV monitor that hovers over their classroom. A federal grant pays for the classes throughout the elementary school. Peiia's class is concentrating on figuring percentages and expressing them in graphs with the help of a math teacher from the Los Angeles County school district who is on the monitor that hangs over the classroom.

In other lessons, the TV teacher has taken them on a video field trip to Sea World, where they figured the weight of sea mammals. Today, the Cuba students are polling each other to find the favorite soft drinks, sports teams and video games. Fourth-grader Keith Suazo has determined Mortal Kombat II is the runaway favorite video game and plots it on a pie chart while keeping an eye on the results from the studio classroom in L.A. and getting the attention of Pefla, who is roaming the room in Cuba to offer help. For Suazo, the TV teacher is a lot more welcome than a math book.

"Most of the stuff is hands-on," Suazo says. "We don't have to be doing it out of textbooks." Students next door in Roger Johnson's classroom get their Spanish and science from the screen. Johnson's third-, fourth-and fifth-graders divide their attention between their worksheets and another L.A. County satellite teacher, who is explaining the principle behind electricity. When the TV teacher pauses, the students take their own batteries, wires and hunks of modeling clay to duplicate the experiment they have seen on TV.

Johnson roams from table to table, answering questions as the students' filaments begin glowing and smoking. If students want to share their results with the teacher in L.A. or any of the students in schools around the country receiving the same satellite feed, they can pick up the phone that hangs on the wall and call during a call-in period. Johnson easily could teach the electricity lesson himself, but having a TV teacher gives him time to concentrate on more in-depth lessons. "It keeps us," says Johnson, "from reinventing the wheel." V.

Roger Vallejos, left, and Silvester Hurtado concentrate on an electrical resistance experiment at Cuba Elementary School. "It (the satellite) keeps us from reinventing the wheel." a-gilin-iflfliijiteiWlftfci teacher Roger Johnson Cuba High School geology teacher Lorenzo Gonzales with his iiH classroom computer. HKMfAmiHIil Pwamedical Snic Permanent Makeup The Gift of Lasting Beauty Eyebrows Eyeliner Lip Liner Full Lip Color Waterproof, weatherproof makeup that won't slide, smudge, smear or melt 44" X- 4 southwest originals 205 San Felipe St. NW in Old Town 842-1093 If you have asthma that is not seasonal, you may be interested in a research project of an investigational asthma medication that may help your asthma symptoms. You must be a non smoker and otherwise in good health.

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