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Volume 17 Number 4
Winter 1998/1999
Computers in the Classroom: Internet in K-12

Kenneth R. Foster and Ralph B. Ginsberg, Guest Editors

Departments

    3  Guest Editors' Introduction
    The Wired Classroom

    Inside front cover
    Call For Papers: ISTAS `99: Women and Technology

    Inside back cover
    Call for Papers: Special Issue of T&S on Gender and Technology

    45  1998 Year-End Index

    47  Call for Papers
    Special Issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine
      

Features

    4  The Neighborhood School in the Global Village*
    John M. Carroll and Mary Beth Rossen

    10  Teacher's Visions of the Future for the Wired Classroom*
    John M. Gleason and James T. Ault, III

    15  Cornerstones for an On-Line Community of Education Professionals*
    Mark Schlager, Judith Fusco, and Patricia Schank

    22  Classroom Adventure on the Information Superhighway*
    Pharra Herlan

    25  Bumps on the Information Superhighway for K-12 Education*
    Susan A. Mengel

    29  Windows of Opportunity? Schools and the Internet in the U.K.*
    Stephen Lax

    33  Schools Join the Net - And Then What?*
    Heidi Schelhowe

    36  Distance Education Technologies: Best Practices for K-12 Settings*
    Gary Greenberg

    41  Curriculum Standards: Rationalizing Instructional Computing?*
    Reed Augliere
     

    * Refereed Article