DESCRIPTORS Authoring Aids (Programming); Change; *Computer Uses in

While the computer chip is revolutionizing society as a whole, its effects on education remain limited. This paper identifies and describes how exemplary elementary school teachers in Southwestern Ohio use technology in the classroom, and provides a model for the development of tomorrow's classrooms. Qualitative and quantitative data collection was conducted over a 6-month period in 1996-97. In Phase 1, 42 school district technology coordinators identified exemplary uses of technology in elementary classrooms, and named exemplary technology-using teachers. In Phase 2, 59 teachers identified as exemplary technology-users were surveyed, with questions based on information gathered in Phase 1. Seven general areas emerged as being most important to the technology coordinators: the Internet, instructional design, research, student use of multimedia authoring programs to create presentations, basic skills instruction and reinforcement, problem solving, and writing and desktop publishing. The teachers were i