A 5th-grade classroom has been designed at Auburn Elementary School (formerly Riner Elementary), a national Blue Ribbon School, with a networked computer for every two students. Virginia Tech is lending a computer for an extended period of time to the family of each student in the program. That will enable the students to work at home with their families in the same way that they do at school. A constructivist curriculum will be designed to encourage reading, writing, exploration, collaboration, and critical analysis. Parents will be trained in networked computing along with their children, and their participation will be required.
Besides assessing outcomes when students are immersed in network-based computing at an early age, the project seeks to determine the human costs associated with full technology utilization. Also to be studied is the applicability of different technologies across a wide range of lesson types.
The FIS Proposal
The Riner Internet Classroom goes
online
Designing an Internet Classroom
The PCs for Families Servers
For the Auburn Parents
Lessons
The Civil War
Project
Managing Passwords
Managing Viruses with F-Prot
Classroom CDRom Library
Project Partners
The Childrens' Pages for
Class 1,
Class 2, and
Class 3
The Titanic, a 1.8 Mbyte Powerpoint
download.
This Week in the
Classroom
The Project Chat Rooms
The Project Lab Chat Rooms
Bibliography
Network-Based Education Projects
Technical References
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