See Indiana Academic Standards and the Science Standard Database with supporting Web links. Project Canaltrek is a statewide effort to enhance the subject of Indiana history, and to demonstrate to students and teachers the educational value of the World Wide Web. Children become experts on teddy bears and dinosaurs, loosing educational opportunity and underachieving. Web Kids Village is an Internet site composed of web sites created by children from around the world. Children are writing and publishing information for other children.
Teachers make all the decisions and children follow directions.
These children will be well prepared for the Industrial Revolution. Children are engaged in real science, collaborating with experts and peers, collecting real data and contributing to the solution of real problems, i.e., problems which have not yet been solved. Children practice skills in isolation, i.e., the skills are isolated from curriculum content and the children are isolated from each other and from a caring adult. Children risk developmental disadvantage. Computers and furniture are arranged to insure good ergonomics and children are taught good posture.