If we think we can bring our old teacherly habits and attitudes into this new world, like jungle explorers dressing for dinner, we're going to waste our own time and that of our students. In the course of learning these seven points, I've had to look at their implications. We all got onto the information highway with the best of intentions, and the quality of the pavement suggests the highway may be taking us straight to hell. So let's look at the seven points again. Every hour a teacher spends learning computer skills is an hour lost to professional development in one's discipline.
Every computer lab means less space for regular classrooms or study areas.
Every modem could have been books in the library . We could get the same effect by flinging a semester's worth of handouts at the students and inviting them to read them in any order they like. Better yet, fling a set of alphabet blocks at them and tell them to compose their own damn handouts. The mentor-apprentice relationship isn't automatically superior to other kinds of learning relationships. We went into teaching, in part, because we understood and liked the classic teacher-student relationship.