It’s an unfortunate hour — school has ended; all classes have
been dismissed; and a child is now struggling in the silence of
her bedroom, trying to decipher the meanings of statistics. The
numbers are baffling. The protocols are unknown. She cannot
recognize the instructions. They offer no explanations that she
can anderstand and her efforts are slow, bordering on the
futile. She doesn’t know what to do. And so… she does nothing,
forced to wait until the next day when she can ask her teacher
for help, worrying about weakening grades since she can’t turn
in her homework. Credit can’t be earned without pages. She fears
she’ll lose precious points. What if she was connected to her
classroom? The world is changing. What was once a limitation of
time, a confinement of school corridors, is being slowly
replaced by technology. Education is beginning to recognize the
value of computers and, through them, students are being
provided with the chance to contact their instructors at all
hours. Lessons are being presente