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\"Educational technology experts explain how to best integrate technology into K-12 schools, from blogs, wikis and podcasts to online learning, open-source courseware, and educational gaming to social networking, online mind-mapping, and using mobile phones\"-- Provided by publisher.

The new software was designed to trick our children into learning the math, reading, grammar, social studies, and science in a way that supported our existing curriculum. Since my school ne^ budgeted for software, I developed basic word processing and database programs for our TRS-80 computers. Even though it lacked the powerful mathematical underpinnings of Logo, it still gave my students the sense of control over the technology that programming engenders. Because I was learning to use computers by programming them, and because my work was mostly ignored by everyone around me except my students, I remember those years as intensely exciting-and liberating. THE NEW SOFTWARE WAS DESIGNED TO TRICK OUR CHILDREN INTO LEARNING THE MATH, READING, GRAMMAR, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND SCIENCE IN A WAY THAT SUPPORTED OUR EXISTING CURRICULUM.

Library media Web site delivers messages across a digital and networked information environment that add value to the services that librarians provide. Here, Warlick offers some tips on building web sites that will work for school library media center.

Suggests that professional planning, not high-stakes testing, \"an Industrial Age solution to an Information Age problem,\" is the key to education's future. Proposes that the day for school library media specialists and teachers should be equally divided between teaching and professional planning-four hours of instructional supervision and four hours of supported professional planning time. (AEF)

After refining our ideas and writing the VoteLine User's Manual, we met with Social Studies teachers and central office technology directors from 12 schools, selected by the Social Studies section. On election day, November 3, the classes held mock elections in their schools, asking students to vote using computer software developed by DPI.

[...]someone said, \"Well they could telnet over to this server and get the manifests of upcoming shuttle flights.\" [...]someone typed, \"This is really interesting.

Watching the inboxes of our email programs, we learned about state-of-the-art offerings, often the same day that they appeared, and discussed their potential implications for teaching and learning. A former college instructor and scholar of medieval literature, Paul has been an owner of a wine shop, a commercial flight instructor, and a respected columnist on emerging technologies.

At the beginning of the next school year I learned that 11 computers had been purchased for my middle school and, since none of the other teachers wanted one, all 11 Radio Shack Model III computers were waiting in my classroom-16 kilobytes of memory each. Not only was I suddenly thankful for my high school typing class, but at the end of my first afternoon as a programmer, I got down on my hands and knees and thanked every algebra teacher I had ever had.

Warlick gives the next president some advice for the twenty-first-century education. Among other things, the president should keep politics out of education. Teachers are among the most educated professionals in the US. It is critical that teachers be empowered with resources, infrastructure and time to creatively craft new learning experiences for their students that are relevant to today's digital and networked information environment. National leaders must support and empower teachers to work smarter, not just force them to work harder.