Supplimentary Course Readings

1. _At School, Technology Starts to Turn a Corner (A New York Times essay reporting on some promising new developments that may herald a new day in the use of technology in K-12 schools.)
   
   
2. _The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice (A report issued by the Web-Based Education Commission, a committee established by Congress to develop specific policy recommendations geared toward maximizing the educational promise of the Internet for pre-K, elementary, middle, secondary, and postsecondary education learners.)
   
3. _I, Robot: One Man's Quest to Become a Computer (Newsweek feature article: Ray Kurzweil can't wait to be a Cyborg—a human mind inside an everlasting machine. But is this the next great leap in human evolution, or just one man's midlife crisis writ large?)
   
   
4. _Griffith, E. (2000, September) How the Net Works, Access Magazine
   
   
5.  New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines (A New York TImes article on new ways of keeping robots from misappropriating Internet resources.)
   
   
6.  Four Ways to Strengthen a Password (Just what the title suggests!)