Power Learning Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One - The Student as Thinker, Researcher and Inventor I. The Passing of Smokestack Education II. The Advent of Power Learning Chapter Two - Real Time Research and the Media Center as Info Central I. Smokestack Research II. Info Central - Tomorrow's Library Today Chapter Three - High Tech Social Studies I. Charting a Course: Social Studies for the 21st Century II. Mining the Mountain - Combating Info-glut, Info-tactics and Info-paralysis III. Traveling the Electronic Highway IV. Micro-worlds, Tele-Presence, and Virtual Reality ? Chapter Four - High Tech Math and Science I. Models, Systems, Simulation and Statistical Inference II. Traveling the Electronic Highway III. Opening the Information Window: The Play is the Thing IV. Learning Teams V. Seeing is Believing (and Understanding) Chapter Five - High Tech English I. What It Now Means to Read II. Implications for Schools III. What It Means to Write IV. What It Means to Communicate Chapter Six - High Tech Arts I. Picture This - Imagine That II. Variations on a Theme III. The Play's the Thing IV. A Note of Caution References

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