education

This page is under construction and will be available in November 2002, highlighting studies about the 'wired classroom'. Australian states/territories and overseas governments have boasted about their success in taking schools onto the net but a close examination of figures suggests that

• connectivity in many schools, particularly in much of the US, has not escaped outside the library or the administrator's office - many classrooms remain to be wired
  
  
• there is uncertainty about day to day use of the net where there is a connection to the classroom (eg there's only a single 'wired' machine, which is often not online)
  
  
• there is greater disagreement about the scope for developing net-based curricula and - more effectively - leveraging online resources to complement rather than replace traditional teaching methods.

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