In general, the study suggests that online use can be an important tool in helping students become active learners, adept at finding information and using it. Soon, students find that their regular classroom reading material seems easier by comparison. Students learn and practice note-taking skills as they sift information presented on screen and transfer important points and concepts to paper. Computer use becomes routine rather than intimidating. Any initial cyberphobias are quickly dispelled.
Students love and appreciate time spent online.
The Jeff Meyer Technology Wing at O'Keeffe Elementary Georgia O'Keeffe Elementary boasts one of the finest technology centers of any elementary school in the state of New Mexico. The technology wing was added to the O'Keeffe library in 1996 using materials purchased with money from a memorial fund set up in honor of the late Jeff Meyer, a scientist at Sandia National Laboratory, whose children attended O'Keeffe. Computers were purchased with donations from Sandia, Intel, and O'Keeffe's Friends Of The Library organization. Software appropriate to a grade school environment is continually added and upgraded as necessary. But busy teachers, who are already struggling to cover all material mandated by the State Board of Education, have little or no time remaining with which to introduce computer training and Internet research projects into the regular classroom curriculum.