Teacher Education, 1(1), 89-97. Preparing Tomorrow's English Language Arts Teachers Today: Principles and Practices for Infusing Technology

Computing is not just a new technology or a new medium of communication; rather, it is a radical new way to process and organize information and as such it represents a new form of language. Robert K. Logan Teachers using technology in their English language arts classrooms are not only improving their instruction for their students; they are changing the very nature of that instruction. The following are three examples of English language arts classrooms where technology serves an integral part of classroom instruction. High school students in New York assemble and publish a school literary magazine each year. Nothing unusual about that...except that this particular magazine contains contributions from students in 10-15 different countries! The student editors solicit contributions on the Internet, and students ' writing is sent to the editors through e-mail for review and evaluation. l A teacher in Orlando, Florida has her students read Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and they discuss the book chapter by chapter. Sounds like standard operating procedure...except that her students also post their responses to each chapter on a listserv where other students in a classroom in Russia can add their own thoughts. Both classrooms—in Florida and in Russia—are reading through the novel at the same time and at the same rate so the students can share thoughts and negotiate meanings among one another. l During the 1990-91 school year, Jeff Golub, one of the authors of this article, was teaching at Shorecrest High School in Seattle, Washington. The Persian Gulf War broke out at this time, and Jeff had his students corresponding with several Israeli students through the International Education and Resources Networ