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Wrong Turn on the Information Superhighway: Education and the Commercialization of the Internet

Wrong Turn on the Information Superhighway: Education and the Commercialization of the Internet

by Bettina Fabos

Are schools taking advantage of the information superhighway, or sending kids out onto an advertisers' speedway? Fabos (communication studies, U. of Northern Iowa) puts the brakes on to show teachers, policymakers, researchers, and parents how students are being exposed to a commercialized version of a system that once promised to educate them. She suggests ways to take the Net back for schools, such as the development of noncommercial subject directories, the teaching of information literacy skills, and the emergence of a digital archiving movement.