the Internet and education .. or what to expect (I suspect the following is

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

As  friend of mine has a daughter who is in a project to establish foreign
penpals. She just used the internet to establish a contact with a Russian
student and was so happy to have such a penpal. Guess what the teacher
said..


Dave




>Dave
>
>My daughter has "connected."
>
>But guess what?  TRUE STORY...  It is a sad example of how backward our schools
>and teachers are...
>
>She did this as part of a project where her teacher told them to go get pen
>pals as a project.
>
>When she told her teacher about what she was doing here, the teacher said. "Oh
>that doesn't count, you have to send paper mail."
>
>I am on the warpath!!!!