The response during our initial year, 1998-99, was as expected. The key tools such as the Internet are worth the expense and the bother according to the National High School Association, National Science Foundation, National Teachers Association, Maryland State Teachers Association, Seymour Papert, Bill Gates, and others. Information Access and use credible information from the web that is broad and deep. By using search engines such as Yahoo or Alta Vista, information ranging from lesson plans on NASA's current efforts to explore Mars for evidence of life to buying stocks on-line is readily available. Publication Educators are provided opportunities via the web to be contributors to their profession by posting lesson plans, information to newsgroups, and professional articles for electronic publication.
Students can contribute to real world research by posting their own work to the web.
Opportunities for learners to contribute information are only limited by their own interests. Purposeful Exploration Technology provides learners the freedom to experience and learn anything they choose. Learners in North Dakota can visit the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, and an art gallery in San Francisco, or the Space Shuttle in orbit. No longer must a researcher settle for data and information published years before or waste time searching library shelves that often yield no usable data or information. The learner can easily access data and information that is usually only days, sometimes minutes old on any topic.