[LINK] Teachers a wired bunch: study

Rachel Polanskis r.polanskis@uws.edu.au
Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:01:47 +1100 (EST)


On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> Teachers a wired bunch: study
> Caitlin Fitzsimmons of australianIT.com.au
> 07 November 2000
> http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1390362%5E442,00.html
> 
> Three out of four secondary school teachers use the internet in their
> teaching environment, compared to 57 per cent of primary school teachers.
> The report finds 86 per cent of teachers regularly using the internet use
> it for research, while 73 per cent use it for email. Most teachers use the
> internet in the library, administration or staffroom, rather than the
> classroom.

Most of my secondary teacher friends seem to have hotmail accounts 
and take great delight in sending me well worn jokes, e-cards and 
humorous JPEGS....  I also know who all the recipients are as 
they are usually in a huge CC list containing 40-50 recipients....


rachel

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