Abstract
Digital electric trains have come to the attention of educators and administrators at a critical time when schools are deeply concerned with at-risk students, finding creative uses for computers in the classroom, developing both cooperative learning and critical thinking skills, encouraging girls to participate in computer learning activities, and improving computer literacy among students in the lower two-thirds of the higher learning skills (math and science particularly). The following paper evaluates the new technology of digital trains which are becoming popular in school districts across the country. These trains allow for multiple students to control electric trains on common tracks thereby promoting cooperation, communication, and interactive problem solving. Computers can also be connected to the trains through an interface that is built into the digital system. The addition of the computer makes it possible to teach computer skills with electric trains as the output device. Trains not only become a real time control device, but they also have sensors that communicate with the computer making the system a two-way interactive problem solver.
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