Education: `Edutainment' : How to laugh and learn: A grass-roots movement that started in the home is putting school systems under pressure to move computers into the classroom

A revolution is taking place in the use of computers in learning. But more of the revolution happens to be occurring outside of U.S. educational institutions than inside them. Between 5 and 7 million households now have a personal computer, while about 325 000 are estimated to be in schools. A Gallup Survey found that while 51 percent of personal-computer owners surveyed use the machines to play video games, 46 percent also said that they use them to teach their children spelling ma mathematics.