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Nando Times AOL offers free service to schools
"America Online Inc. will offer a free service to schools that company officials say will make it easier for students and teachers to use the Internet in the classroom.

Critics said the venture could be a cash cow in the future because it will help build brand loyalty and perhaps create a generation of future AOL customers.

AOL@School, being launched Wednesday, will have separate portals for elementary, middle and high school students that will help pupils reach the best educational Web sites, officials said.

Students will see no ads - other than the AOL logo - will not be able to purchase goods online and will be blocked from accessing pornography or other offensive material, officials said. Students will be able to send e-mail and instant messages to encourage group online activities or to establish pen pals in faraway schools."

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Wired News AOL Ups German Access Ante
"AOL Europe announced Tuesday that it plans to give all German primary and secondary schools and 900,000 German schoolteachers free access to the Internet."

"It can never be too early to start communicating the necessary skills," [Chancellor Gerhard] Schroeder said."
Netfuture On Constructivism in Education
"..."student-centered, active, and experiential" is all too often taken to mean that we can just turn students over to their own devices and somehow they will learn everything that needs learning. In particular, the constructivist focus on the child is assumed to imply a de-emphasis of the teacher's role, as if the two stood in opposition.
But this is to miss the heart of the matter, which is that learning grows out of relationship. If you really understand that learning is not primarily a matter of content shoveled into a container, then you must also recognize that what the student learns most decisively is a set of human gestures, a strengthening of certain inner movements, a way of grasping (and being grasped by) the world.
In other words, education is not primarily a matter of learning subjects. What the student learns is the teacher. If you can recall a teacher who changed your life in a memorable way, what you remember will almost certainly not be a particular body of information he passed along; it will, rather, be the kind of person he was. You learned a way of standing in the world. The reason we need to approach ever new subjects is that we need to learn what it means to be a human being facing ever new aspects of the world."

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