COMPUTERS IN ONTARIO EDUCATION: REPORT OF THE PILOT SCHOOL PROJECTS Toronto, Ministry of Education, c1983. 36pp, paper, $3.00. Review and Evaluation Bulletins, 4:5, ISSN 0226-7306. ISBN 0-7743-8792-0. THE IMPACT OF MICROCOMPUTERS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION Sylvia Lester. Toronto, Ministry of Education, c1983. 148pp, paper, $6.00. ISBN 0-7743-8898-6. Professional. Reviewed by William F. Benson. Volume 12 Number 6 1984 November Ontario, like the rest of the country, is going through the beginning phases of the technological revolution. Unlike the rest of the country, though, the Ontario education ministry is trying to do it in a fairly logical, well-documented, province-wide manner. These two reports prepared for that ministry document the results of its pilot projects and the impact computers are having on the children, the parents, and the teachers. Of the two, I would only recommend the review of the pilot projects as worthwhile reading for the average person. The report lists five different schools in widely separate areas of Ontario, ranging in size from 325 students to 1,400 students, and details not only the hardware used but the problems and successes encountered. The report ends with a synthesis of the recommendations from all five schools. Their experiences are particularly valid not only because of their diversities but also because they used a variety of different microcomputers in different settings. The second report, The Impact of Microcomputers, makes a number of good points, but they are buried in a mass of unnecessary anecdotal comments and pseudo-scientific analysis of the researchers' results. The two reports do bring out, in detail, the problems faced with the implementation of computers into schools. If your school or district is just beginning or is about to begin bringing computers into your school, then I would highly recommend that you read these two reports. If you have already begun using computers in your schools, then you are cognizant of the problems these two reports highlight. What is important about them may not be their content so much as their existence and the fact that Ontario is documenting the struggle and the development of the new technology. William F. Benson, Alexander Park E. S., Golden, BC.