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Commission on Technology, Gender, and Teacher Education (2000).  Tech-Savvy:
Educating Girls in the New Computer Age.  American Association of University
Women Educational Foundation.

Several themes focusing on girls in schools are found in this report.  They 
include: (1) girls and teachers in grades K-12 have reservations about the 
computer culture; (2) statistics on girls participation in the culture of computing 
are of increasing concern, and (3) girls current ways of participating in the 
computer culture are a cause of concern.  Several recommendations include 
compute across the curriculum, redefine computer literacy, prepare tech-savvy 
teachers, and support efforts that give girls and women a boost into the pipeline.

Cuban, Larry (2001).  Oversold & Underused:  Computers in the Classroom. 
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

The author of this provocative book argues that teachers are not trained to use 
new technology or given a chance to develop creative uses for it in school. 
Consequently, computers end up being merely souped-up typewriters.  He 
concludes that the abundant availability of infrastructure in the nations schools 
has not led, as expected, to frequent or extensive teacher use of technologies for 
tradition-altering classroom instruction.


Education Week on the Web (2001, May).  The New Divides:  Looking Beneath the
Numbers to Reveal Digital Inequities, Education Week on the Web.

The rapid infusion of computers into the nations schools is closing the digital 
divide, but inequities still persist and questions remain to be answered.  How 
often are students using the Internet and other computer resources to learn , and 
for what purposes?  Are youngsters using school computers that can handle large 
amounts of data and employ sophisticated communication tools?  Or are they 
working with obsolete machines inappropriate for the 21st century classroom? 
Moreover, do some schools have the technical support necessary to keep 
machines running while others do not?  Are teachers in one district getting better 
trained to


	

	
		
			
				
					
						




						
							
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