Cummins, J. & Sayers, D.

Before I begin this post, I have a question. Using the link provided from Blackboard only allows partial viewing of the text. Looking up the text, online, I found that it has different publishers and publishing dates. Why is this? I'm unsure of the exact citation, because the online community seems to have variations. Even so, here are my notes from what I could partially comprehend from the pages the link allowed:

Cummins, J. & Sayers, D. (1995). Brave New Schools; Challenging Cultural Illiteracy
Through Global Learning Networks. St. Martin’s Press, Ch. 3

Key Points:

Inequity in technology resources mirrors every other inequity in distributions of human and material resources, between school districts and between industrialized and Third World countries.

the network of networks, however, provides the possibility of communicating a rapid speeds anyone who wishes to be “connected” (18).

“Unlike academics, researchers, commercial enterprises, and even nonprofit organizations, classroom teachers confront a formidable and often daunting task in their attempts to link students to the Internet” (19).

Communication that transcends class to class boundaries can be advantageous to participating classrooms.

“Distance, in the context of class-to-class exchanges, creates the possibility of collaboration with an unknown but knowable audience, principally through written communication” (32).