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What is most disconcerting is the fact that most of our classrooms are not only not connected to the Information Highway, they do not yet even have the basic equipment needed to access any part of it--a computer, a modem, communications software and a phone line. According to Quality Education Data, a major educational research company, only 29% of our public schools have this basic setup. Since most schools do not provide teachers with a phone in their classroom for communicating with parents and professional colleagues, most classrooms do not have phone lines installed. Thus, most schools that have access to the Information Highway only have access through one computer, frequently in a computer lab or a library. As a result, most students neither have good access nor the opportunity to access the benefits when it is appropriate in their regular classroom instruction.

So, how do we increase children's access to the Information Highway? The first step is recognizing that the Information Highway is a tool that must be available to all educators and all children--we must make it a priority to connect our schools. The second step is getting the computers out of a lab and into the classrooms, where real learning takes place. The next step is networking the school's computers and purchasing site licenses for software and services, so teachers have access to the software and services in their classrooms where they can incorporate it into their learning activities. The next step is connecting the network to an online service or directly to the Internet to allow all classrooms access to the Information Highway. All along the way, we must provide on-going support for our teachers, so they experience the benefits of telecommunications and understand how to incorporate its use into their teaching methods. Only with computers and access to online services in the individual classrooms and on-going learning opportunities for our teachers will our students ever receive the benefits of technology and the Information Highway as tools for their learning.


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