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!!!!