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CHOICE Review

The authors in this 1998 ASCD collection envisage technology not as an end in itself but as a tool that enables learning. Is there an actual paradigm shift? Dede (George Mason Univ.) in his foreword rejects the notion that technology is either panacea for education's ills or merely additional content for the curriculum. While a technology revolution has created the challenges students will face in tomorrow's world, it is still the ability to master complex skills and content that will enable them to meet these challenges. From such premises, then, follow papers describing visions of communities of learners, facilitated, empowered, and extended by technology. "Bookend" papers use dialog to sketch out scenarios of the future. In one instance, teachers, students, and parents all collaborate on an environmental protection problem; they communicate over the Internet, share data from their own personal databases, and access other information on television and through the World Wide Web. Fascinating vision, but the question is, will it ever become more than that? The integration is seamless, everyone is willing and cooperative, and the technology works flawlessly. Hmmm... Upper-division undergraduates and above; practitioners and professionals. G. H. Alexander; Florida Gulf Coast University