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This paper discusses the trend towards Internet-based learning and Internet-ready classrooms. The paper discusses how technology can be used within a classroom setting and the ease with which the changes toward Internet-ready classes can be made. The paper also looks at the benefits of the use of these Internet-ready classrooms to enhance and supplement traditional teaching and learning models.

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"It is clear from this argument that I advocate the commitment and investment to internet-based learning and internet-ready classrooms, as well as of the benefits of the use of these classrooms to enhance and supplement traditional teaching and learning models. The horizon is clearly before us: students are increasingly computer and informational technology literate, and they do, in many cases, arrive in our educational system with experience in using the technology that we are now debating about bringing to them on a daily basis. The issue to my mind, then, is not whether our district should commit to a policy of bringing ourselves into the wired generation, but when we will begin moving on to a thoughtful and transparent discussion of how we will use these classrooms with the still very real pressures of workload and the like. The internet is here and with us to stay, how we use it will shape the conditions of our own future."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Berge, Z.L. and M.P. Collins, eds. (1995). Computer mediated communication and the on-line classroom. Cresskill: Hampton Press.
• Dearing, Lord (1997). The Dearing Report. London: HMSO.
• Graham, D.T., J. MacNeil, and L. Pettiford (2000). Untangled web: Developing teaching on the internet. Harlow: Pearson Education.

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