Teachers at Frontier started looking to other schools to see what they were doing. To our dismay, most schools had only one or two connected computers, and these were usually in the school library. I wish we had found the one magic answer to give to all teachers, but we still haven't. How each teacher uses the available tools, must be determined ultimately by the teacher. But I have come to believe that we must use computers for something more than teaching rote facts and evaluating students' ability to memorize.
Computers open up a whole world of information for students to access, evaluate, and use.
Perhaps student goals should now include mastering these skills more than merely memorizing information. If so, then the traditional classroom where teachers lecture and students listen will not fulfill the need. I use both Netscape and Internet Explorer. Netscape is my browser for the Internet, while Internet Explorer is the desktop browser. All program files on the computer are hypertext linked and can be called up using Internet Explorer.