Politicians are aware of it, but I don't think educators are. Alice White Teachers can show students how to look below the surface to grasp the content of a photograph, the strategies of an advertisement or the emotions of a painting. Information ATMs Electronic information resources now provide the equivalent of information ATMs in many homes and across the classrooms of networked schools. Information is everywhere and available 24 hours a day. You can access the Net from an airplane 40,000 feet off the ground or an elementary classroom far from any metropolis.
Students can now do real time research . . .
The new tests of information are speed of access, currency and quality. Now On and a series of articles published in Technology Connection have described this research process in some depth. The series is available in the book, Net Profit in a Post Modem World . Electronic publishing offers new possibilities for learning and communicating. As traditional publishing shifts to electronic forms and the Internet, schools may engage students in publishing the findings from their research, the fruits of their creative production and the best of their thinking.