It is tragic that today's students readily accept the world around them without question. One of our schools' missions must be to revitalize our childrens' imaginations. We need to create heroes from abstract ideas and thinking. It is critical that we teach our children how to think abstractly and in a non linear fashion. I suggest that the World Wide Web is a tool our students can use to promote abstract thinking and to revitalize their imaginations.
Schools are anxious to get their classrooms on the Internet and are rushing to connectivity.
We need to consider how the telephone, computer, modem, and multimedia might enrich the learning process and enable us to develop children into motivated life-long learners. We need to think about how our children can better learn for understanding and what it really means to be computer literate. For connectivity in the classroom and home to succeed and improve learning environments, we must simultaneously think about the appropriate learning methodologies to accompany the new tools. Similarly the developers of these tools need to give strong thought to their users and tailor the tools accordingly. Dynamic reports from children should be more than documents made by electronically cutting and pasting from CD Roms.