education

This page is under construction and will be available in later this year, highlighting studies about the correlation between educational achievement (reflected in income) and internet use and about the 'wired classroom'.

Australian states/territories and overseas governments have boasted about their success in taking schools onto the net but a close examination of figures suggests that

• connectivity in many schools, particularly in much of the US, has not escaped outside the library or the administrator's office - many classrooms remain to be wired
• there is uncertainty about day to day use of the net where there is a connection to the classroom (eg there's only a single 'wired' machine, which is often not online)
• there is greater disagreement about the scope for developing net-based curricula and - more effectively - leveraging online resources to complement rather than replace traditional teaching methods.

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