The results show significantly higher scores on measurements of information management, communication, and presentation of ideas for experimental groups with online access than for control groups with no online access. It offers evidence that using Scholastic Network and the Internet can help students become independent, critical thinkers, able to find information, organize and evaluate it, and then effectively express their new knowledge and ideas in compelling ways. 5B. To succeed in the workplace, children need to become independent, critical thinkers. They must know where and how to find information, organize it, evaluate it, and then effectively express their new knowledge and ideas. They must work cooperatively in teams.
Online communications plays a vital role in preparing children for their adult lives.
As we fund and implement these new communications technologies, it is important to know whether they actually improve student performance. It is also critically important to know what steps need to be taken in the school, the district, and the community to support their effective use in the classroom. For Educators this facilitates the use of resources at a click of a mouse. On the World Wide Web, with its tens of thousands of hyperlinks, similar short hops can whisk a student from a stuffy government site to an X-rated one. Schools will do the best they can to corral children in safe cyberspaces.