I don't doubt that computer networks are revolutionizing education. The question is whether education is benefiting from them. Probably the most vigorously promoted classroom use of the computer today is typified by students collaborating on opposite sides of the globe to gather and compare local environmental data.
Science combines with cross-cultural experience.
What is valuable in this is the opportunity for students to get out into their local settings and come to know those settings. One thinks here, for example, of the way native Americans once knew the land in its complex, nurturing, and instructive immediacy. Without a love for the environment just outside the window, the student will never help to heal the earth as a whole. But, of course, computers promote neither the love nor the knowledge. It is the computer that dominates this scenario, not the natural world.