The article explained how in the future there will be many more headstart programs using computers. Fifty Nifty States is an interdisciplinary unit integrating mathe-matics, social studies, and technology. Students are motivated to learn about the U.S. by adding the internet to traditional sources. This gives students access to primary sources and people from individual states or regions of the country. Students can personalize their research by exploring self-selected questions and designing their own approaches to solving them.
Computers also allow students to organize and present their information in new and exciting ways.
This article discusses how Kids Network allows students to explore topics the way scientists do. They ask questions, research, form hypothesis, experiment, and analyze data from all over the U.S. and foreign countries. By organizing classrooms into reasearch units with other classrooms, the learning and communication are increased many-fold. The different units lend themselves to true interdisciplinary integration of technology into the learning enviroment. This technology relies heavily on math and science concepts using a visual rather than a textual approach .