You can access the Net from an airplane 40,000 feet off the ground or an elementary classroom far from any metropolis. Students can now do real time research . . . The new tests of information are speed of access, currency and quality. Now On and a series of articles published in Technology Connection have described this research process in some depth. The series is available in the book, Net Profit in a Post Modem World .
Electronic publishing offers new possibilities for learning and communicating.
As traditional publishing shifts to electronic forms and the Internet, schools may engage students in publishing the findings from their research, the fruits of their creative production and the best of their thinking. Go to the Judi Harris list of projects. Just as collaborating and communicating across a global network enhances learning for students, teachers will find that the Internet provides a chance to step outside of the isolation which too long characterized the life of teachers in smokestack schools, communicating with colleagues across town, across state lines and across national boundaries on how to achieve the best results for students. Teachers may select a listserv from this list of educational listservs which will engage them in an electronic community of educators exchanging ideas, questions, good strategies, fears, doubts, etc. The Internet presents schools and teachers with a challenge and a rich array of opportunities.