Re: Linda Roberts Calls for Studies of Technology in Classrooms

[Peter Milbury <pmilbury@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>]

No wonder the department of education was so far behind the rest of the
world in getting online:

> Description: Linda Roberts, director of the Office of Educational
> Technology at the Dept. of Education, made a pitch yesterday to begin
> serious studies of whether the use of technology (computers and the
> Internet) in schools improves student achievement. "It's important to
> collect baseline data and to deliberately track performance," said Roberts
> during a conference on schools and technology in Manhattan. The research
> is necessary, she said, to show that the billions of dollars being spent
> to wire schools are worth it.  "School districts will be called to task
> for 'What are you doing with your money and what difference does it
> make?'"

Better question: Can our graduates get a job without it?

Maybe we could save a whole lot of tax dollars she is proposing to spend
on her research, and give it to the schools that already know what appears
in the following research report:
The Emerging Digital Economy - Introduction.
A Publication of the U.S. Department of Commerce, April 1998
http://www.ecommerce.gov/danintro.htm

[Merely that the "revitalized" U.S. economy is probably, most likely,
being driven by the Internet/web engine. Billions are being reaped from
Internet sales in the business sector, and she is wanting to spend
precious tax dollars to see if we should be teaching in school what the
SCANS Report, and any number of leading professional organizations and the
Business World are trying to get us to understand!]

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