Because MetaFrame expands learning into the home, students' attitudes toward school have fundamentally changed. Parents have given me feedback that their children now want to study past bedtime. With increased home access, children can complete homework assignments online and submit them via e-mail. Parents can easily communicate with teachers. Students can communicate with each other using Chalkboard, another LemonLINK application that creates a virtual classroom in which classmates can work on joint projects remotely.
Research is made easier using filtered Internet access to connect to education-related sites.
ProQuest Direct, a collection of more than 200 current and archived newspapers and magazines, and Encarta Encyclopedia are also available. Longitudinal studies over time will provide greater insight into technology's impact. And inevitably, they want to know how we do it. Without question, it's server-based computing that makes it all possible. In recent testing, middle school students using computers as an academic intervention posted gains of as much as two years' growth in reading and math in the first six months of the school year.