Is it worth it, all this Internet stuff? Worth the time and energy it takes? Worth it because your students will learn more? Worth it because you'll be a better teacher? The answer to these questions-yes and no-can be found in this readable, conversational, practical, and slyly revolutionary work. The author proposes that integrating computer-mediated technology into your classroom is well worth it if accomplished in a way that helps new and worthwhile things happen there. And then she shows you how to do just that. You'll begin building with a flexible framework-clear, strong, and simple activity structures-that becomes your foundation for designing and implementing powerful curriculum-based telecomputing projects. Don't expect a project directory, general reference, or manual. This is a book you'll read from start to finish and be glad you did. It's worth it.
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From Chapter 1: By offering you the ideas, processes, and examples included in this book, I hope to assist your discovery and honing of a set of broadly applicable design tools you will be able and willing to use in current and future educational planning. My intent is not to motivate you to use the Internet in your classroom by making overstated promises or unrealistic generalizations. I don't want to impress you with anything except, perhaps, powerful ideas that apply to far more than educational telecomputing and of which all I need do is remind you. This book is not a potpourri of Internet activity ideas any more than a home is a collection of rooms. I sincerely hope you will go away from this text noticing conceptually based, but authentic and functional, shapes and patterns rather than specific details for flashy attributes. As Aristotle wrote 17 centuries ago in his Poetics:
'The most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.'
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