The Day After Net Day

To date, popular enthusiasm for educational applications of computer networking has outpaced scholarly research on their educational value. This article reviews a variety of approaches to educational use of the internet, and divides them into four categories: information delivery, information retrieval, information sharing, and technological samba schools. The pedagogical foundations of each approach are analysed. As we move through these approaches in order, the emphasis shifts from information to ways of knowing, and there is an increasing emphasis on community.