Article: Education online: interactive K-12 computing. (Column)

Imagine that I am a science teacher, managing a group of creative sixth grade students. I have watched them at lunch playing with sets of plastic dinosarus, reconstructing ancient battles between Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus [1]. On thier breaks, they access several compact discs on the classroom network on dinosaurs, often visiting the Virtual Natural History Museum. Sometimes they roam on their computers through the halls of great dinosaur exhibits in museums in the New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, London, Brussels, and Berlin. Just before afternoon class begins, and while they are on recess, I send out over the school network a deceptively simple assignment. ...

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