Wires do very little by themselves for kids . . .
Entirely too much attention has been devoted to the wires and the cabling, to the business of connecting classrooms to the Internet . Too many public figures have climbed upon this bandwagon as if the mere act of networking would create some miracle. The promises and grandiose claims pile up as high as the sky. According to many folks, networking offers the same magic as Popeye's can of spinach . . . This may be a boondoggle of enormous proportions.