Ideas concerning how to best educate students to become "information literate" are being drastically modified as a result of a steady infusion of network technology, especially packaged software on personal computers, in the public school system. This report documents the evolution of a project, originally intended to test an implementation of a computer-based information literacy curriculum in several Worcester public schools, that developed into a study of the conception, capabilities, expectations, and receptiveness of a Worcester area school system to a proposed information literacy curriculum. At issue is how computing will manifest itself in the classroom of the future.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Fichera, Edward Paul
• Kocima, Michael John
• Ondrasek, Michael John

Subject

• Computing
• Community
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 99D317I

Keyword

• Education, Secondary
• Information literacy

Advisor

• Wilkes, John M.

Year

• 1999

Sponsor

• Worcester Public School System, Worcester, MA

Date created

• 1999-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright