ABSTRACT
This chapter draws heavily on experience, reported during the last two or three years, in using new information technology in schools, this time at the secondary level. School systems vary from country to country in defining what is primary and secondary schooling, but here we take secondary schools as those serving children aged about 12-18. Experience in using microcomputers comes first again, followed by videotex and videodisc. In the United Kingdom, telesoftware is sent by videotex. Computer programs stored on the Prestel (videotex) computer can be accessed, retrieved and stored by any school (primary or secondary, but most are secondary) which is a registered Prestel user and which has a Research Machine 380Z disc-based microcomputer. The system can be used to transmit software in any language, although only a few are being used so far. It has automatic error checking so that problems from line noise are eliminated.
