Steve,

Guess this is the topic of the month. For more about this check out:

Vol 9|No 1|September|1999

Note: The full hyperlinked text of this article can be found
at http://fno.org along with an article on providing choice for
professional development.

Guess we know where the next rounds of monies will be heading. :)
nm


At 09:46 AM 9/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Teachers Are Lagging Behind in Logging On
>
>TIME Notebook: They say teaching materials are poor
>Date: 1999.09.20
>Url: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,31165-101990920,00.html
>
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>
>With more computers than ever ready to be booted up in
>classrooms across the country, our schools should be
>turning out thousands of Bill Gates clones. Not so
>fast. It seems half the screens are dark because the
>geeks who backed this rush to get computers in schools
>forgot one key element - training the teachers.
>Education Week magazine has just completed a
>comprehensive report on technology in schools that shows
>teachers don't know what to do with all that RAM. Almost
>50 percent don't use computers at all in teaching, and
>only 61 percent use the Internet. And the educational
>software that's out there doesn't provide much promise:
>70 percent of high school teachers said finding useful
>products is nearly impossible, and the software-savvy
>give materials that are usable a grade C or lower.
>
>-- TIME CORRESPONDENT SALLY B. DONNELLY
>
>