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What i find enhancing about this article/essay is the volume of concern for the internet as a learning tool. Coming from an era earlier in life of the electric typewriter and other technology that was modern in its time but not as efficient as today's computers, I welcome the advantage of easier and quicker access to material. I remember the drudgery of really doing a ten page research paper. Long hours of labor in the library, looking through countless books for one sentence of information. The internet has made that task much easier and enjoyable.

What is distracting to me is the access of the internet being limited as an educational tool. What would we be doing today without powerpoint? I remember in the days of doing a presentation. The class would bring their projects and we would have so much material in the room that it was very uncomfortable. With powerpoint that eliminates a lot of material bulk and it has a constant flow to the presentation.

The most helpful idea that i recieved from this article/essay was the learning curve could possibly be shortened for the disabled. The internet does not distinguish between normal and abnormal. That is a human distinction. The internet gives equal access to the brilliant, average, and idiot alike.

I find it very confusing that educators with heavily weighted titles can reduce themselves to mental midgets when it comes to the best interests of children. Everyone does not learn alike and the problem with the American education system is that everyone is expected to learn the same way, but are not treated the same way. There are no cultural values expounded for students who may have language barriers except English as a second language. In this new millineum era has just the time changed and not our dominant ways? The dominant discourse of the U.S. and the world must allow " the plain and average folks" of this world to have access to the same resources if you want them to learn the same. That may sound like a political statement but isn't life wrangled around the politics of who you know to get what you want?