The NII is a term that encompasses all these components and captures the vision of a nationwide, invisible, seamless, dynamic web of transmission mechanisms, information appliances, content, and people. Information infrastructures provide access to experts, interlinked archival resources, distributed investigations, and virtual communities. Through illusion, shared synthetic environments aid us in better understanding and appreciating reality. The new messages these new media make possible can dramatically improve instructional outcomes, but such an evolution of education practice depends on careful design of the interface among learner, teacher, and tool. Using a simple keyboard or a touch-sensitive screen, the computer can present images of letters, animals or other objects.
Many systems can also recognize and repeat sounds.
Computer programs that enable children to learn math, spelling, geography and other subjects, often in the form of a game of adventure. Software for both individual and collaborative learning exists. Typed messages sent from one computer screen to another along with a network linking the units. Transmitting messages from one computer to another offers children the ability to instantly communicate through written messages with scientists, teachers, other students and friends anywhere in the world. New creative tools allowing children to draw and to design their own original art and other imaginative creations.