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`Most important, both networks
`add a wide variety of learning
`activities available only to their
`educational subscribers and sup—
`port these (plus many of the gener—
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`tors: the Scholastic Network and
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`PRODIGY, CompuServe, GEnie,
`and others~-—have always offered
`valuable educational components
`such as news wires, stock market
`quotations, forums, and reference
`materials. However, educators have not
`always found these online services,
`with their commercial and “adult”
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`figured to prevent kids from entering
`the adult “chat” rooms and commercial
`areas of America Online, while
`Classroom PRODlGY bars all corn—
`mercial transactions and replaces the
`advertising usually found at the bottom
`of PRODIGY screens with announce—
`ments about educational programs.
`The two services are also tailored to
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`the purchasing and budgeting needs of
`schools. Both provide five separate stu—
`dent/classroom accounts for every
`teacher subscription and avoid any sur—
`prises by having school users decide
`ahead of time how many online hours
`per month they want to purchase. (The
`system automatically shuts off if the
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`Saline With Scholastic
`ith the Scholastic Network.
`launched last September,
`you get all
`the educational
`resources available on America Online,
`including Compton’s Encyclopedia,
`various news wires, Time Magazine
`Online, the Teachers” Information
`Network (where
`educators
`can
`exchange
`ideas),
`and National
`Geographic Online (articles from mag—
`azines and information about collabo—
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`rative science projects available from
`National Geographic).
`in addition, the Scholastic Network
`draws on Scholastic. Inc’s, vast expe—
`rience in educational publishing. bring—
`ing noted authors and scientists online
`on a predetermined schedule to answer
`questions, steer kids in the right direc—
`tion in their research, or help them
`write collaborative stories.
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`offerings, ideally suited to the needs of
`the classroom. Scholastic and PRODl—
`GY are attempting to change all that.
`Both new networks are based upon
`existing general~interest services. (The
`Scholastic Network buildsaon the offer—
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`room PRODIGY is a customized ver—
`sion of the PRODlGY commercial ser-
`vice.) Both offer special menus that
`help guide educational users to the rel-
`evant material on the networks with
`which they are affiliated while barring
`kids from material parents and educa—
`For instance, during Women’s
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`to the education network had access to
`a full library of articles from Scholastic
`magazines, texts of historic documents,
`and curriculum materials for middle
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`Orrin) answered kids" e—mail and Chat,
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`ted with them online.
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`This offering fit right into the cur
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`riculum for Ron Adams. a laanguage -_
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`and high school students. Mary
`arts teacher at Broad Meadows Middle
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`Ruthsdotter, co—founder of the National
`League in the 19405 and ’50s made
`School in Quincy, MA, who set up a
`Women’s History Project, talked to
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`teachers about how to incorporate
`women’s history into the curriculum
`while Sue Macy. the author of A Whole
`New Ballgame (the history of the All-
`American Girls= Professional Baseball
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`‘ oeAhteu the
`SéholasticNetwork
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`includes authors and scientists who
`appear weekly to anSWer e-mail‘
`and chat with kids; interactive pro
`iects on topics such as the Winter-
`Olympics, preventing violence, and
`Women’ 3 History Month; plus
`downloadable
`libraries
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`teaching materi—
`als, activities, and lesson plans.
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`9 National Geographic. Text oi
`articles trom National Geographic
`and Traveler magazines plus infor-
`motion on how tosubscribe to Kids
`Network projects. _
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`0 News: Maior news wires, stock
`quotes, weather services, and
`access to Time Magazine articles.
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`Uniqueto Scholastic Network: ,
`0 Kids automatically barred from
`adult and commercial forums on
`America Online.
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`0 Kids' World. Contests, surveys,
`polls, and interactive games such
`as the’’History Mystery,”a weekly
`mystery--solving contest based on;
`clues posted online.
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`‘ Professional conierences tor
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`groups, and mailing lists
`iects (requiring reg;istra-‘
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`chat with Macy for his seventh—graders
`who were compiling World War ll oral
`histories of women in their shipbuild—
`ing town. Another of Adams’s classes
`used its time online to research and
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`lobby for the repatriation of Sioux
`remains on display in a Massachusetts
`library. They got encouragement from
`fellow classmates in Texas and from
`teachers at a Sioux reservation and sent
`an e—mail message to President Clinton
`about it.
`lso online this March was
`Raymond Madieros, a middle school
`history teacher in the rural farming
`community of Dighton, MA. He has
`been coordinating an online cross—
`eountry paper airplane contest. This
`past fall, his kids debated other schools
`on the topic of hate speech alter
`researching Supreme Court opinions
`online. “I have never seen a debate so
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`electrified,” he says. Madieros typed in
`his students’ arguments during the
`debate, which was displayed to the
`class Via an overhead projector con—
`nected to the computer.
`Elsewhere on
`the Scholastic
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`Network recently, astronomer Fred
`Hess fielded e—mail questions about
`black holes and stars, while rock son g—
`writer Jackson Browne judged a lyric-
`writing contest (the winner gets at
`Jackson Browne concert at his or her
`school); and Jean Marvel. conflict reso—
`lution coordinator for Florida’s Dade
`County schools, chatted with teachers
`and students about ways of stopping
`the escalation of violence.
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`Pfittfifig? in
`the {Siassreem
`lassroom PRODIGY, launched in
`January, beefs up the educational
`offerings of the popular commercial
`service. Like the Scholastic Network, it
`offers school subscribers access to a
`variety of special bulletin boards and
`cooperative learning projects. Sample
`topics explored by groups of Classroom
`PRODIGY kids recently include “My
`Senator Says,” “Cool Things in My
`Town” and “In Living Culture.” Ivy
`Montoya, who teaches at Miami Central
`High School in Florida. put together a
`desktop—published In Living Culture
`magazine full of descriptions of ethnic
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`festivals and recipes her class collected
`online and in her school. Following the
`California earthquake in January, her
`class compared their hurricane experi-
`ences with those of earthquake-struck
`kids at the Thomas Starr King Middle
`School in Los Angeles.
`PRODIGY Services also draws on
`the talents of outside consultants such
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`as National Geographic and Boston’s
`WGBH to develop educational features
`for both its regular and classroom sub—
`scribers. For example, as part of a
`series of online expeditions known as
`Learning Adventures, kids recently got
`to
`communicate with Norman
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`Vaughan, an 88—year—old Veteran
`explorer, while he and his dogsled team
`were enroute to the summit of an
`Antarctic mountain, as well as with the
`crew of a 53~foot 'l'ritnaran sailboat
`while it raced from San Francisco to
`Boston in an attempt to beat a 140—
`year—old speed record.
`During the voyage around the Cape.
`the crew could not figure out why the
`boat was being pursued by a flock of
`albatrosses. According to Judith Bruk,
`Classroom PRODIGY’s program man—
`ager, it took a Minnesota high school
`student to discover through online
`research that the albatrosses were not
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`actually following the boat, but the
`yearly migration of squid. “This is the
`kind of thing interactive education is
`about,” Bruk explains.
`Perhaps the biggest difference
`between Scholastic’s and PRODIGY’s
`classroom offerings relates to the dif—
`ferences between the America Online
`and PRODIGY services themselves. In
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`addition to providing all subscribers
`with access to an encyclopedia (the
`Academic American Encyclopedia),
`news wires, financial services, and col—
`laborative activities such as the
`Learning Adventures series described
`above,.PRODIGY offers a number of
`interactive and graphical activities that
`are still unusual
`in the world of
`telecommunications.
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`For example, there are educational
`games for little ones based on the
`Sesame Street TV show. Click on the
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`Cookie Monster and he winks at you
`and gets back in his trash can. Click on
`a numeral and that number of objects
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`of Tom Snyder’s Reading Magic intey-
`active books or play a version of
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`Broderbund’s
`popular Carmen
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`SanDiego series. tCarmen has actually
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`been adapted to the online environment
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`with scaled—down graphics, less infor.
`mation per page, and a new set of myg-
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`terics and clues every month.)
`For older students, NOVA’s dew}-
`opers have created several online sci:
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`ence comic books. In the Monster
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`Digest, kids piece together the digg.
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`tive system at Dr. Frankenstein’s mon-
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`ster manufacturing company. The
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`odic table through a game based on the ‘
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`TV show The Lover Connection. The
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`object is to guess which eligible guests
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`bond on their dates. ls Olivia Oxygen a
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`Finding the Right Service
`Which,
`if either, of these services is
`best for your school? The first question
`to ask is whether you want to go with a
`commercial service at all. With th ‘
`exploding popularity of the Internet
`and the growing number of states that
`are providing educational institutions
`with free access, some schools may
`find it preferable to stick with the
`“net." After all, it connects one with
`thousands of classrooms around the
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`world and more online projects than
`one can imagine.
`On the other hand, for those who do
`not have easy access to the internet or
`who want a gentler introduction to
`telecommunications, both the Scholas—
`tic Network and Classroom PRODiGY
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`have lots of appeal. The Internet may-
`offer access to a larger number of peer
`ple and services, but it definitely
`requires more technical knowledge to
`get going and more of a pioneering
`spirit once you are on. The two com—
`mercial services provide you with their
`own communications software, \cteal‘
`and understandable menus, a teacher’s
`manual, and curriculum materials.
`While the schools online number in the
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`Classroom PRODIGY focuses more 011
`they’re interested in the same sorts of
`oriented, more focused on having kids
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`interact with each other and with
`projects you are.
`games to present educational materiat
`Deciding between the two commer—
`experts both in structured real-time dis—
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`cial options may be even harder. The
`cussions and via e-mail exchanges.
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`incl udes oiierings based on Sesame
`Street, Carmen _SanDiego and Tom
`Sny der’s Reading Magic series,
`plus math games online puzzles,
`and more.
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`kids to find9pen pals, write book _
`reviews ior each other, and talk
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`i get away with less expensive hardware.
`While PRODIGY does not officially
`require a color monitor, much of the
`writing is barely legible on a black-
`and—white display. To take best advan—
`tage of the graphics, you’ll want a
`Windows or color Macintosh computer
`with a very fast modem. Even more of
`an issue is the danger that all the click-
`ing and exploring will end up costing
`you far more than the purchase of
`equivalent softWare for off—line use.
`You can’t download any of the graphi—
`cal games, so be prepared for extended
`online sessions with Classroom
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`add such appeal for young users. With
`the Windows version of Classroom
`PRODIGY (and the revised Mae ver—
`sion due out very soon), color pho—
`tographs accompany the news, and
`many other sections of the service are
`accompanied by cartoons and graphics
`that add to their informational value.
`PRODIGY promises sound by the end
`of the year—making the online activi~
`ties even more engaging for young
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`While PRODlGY has the edge
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`graphically, the Scholastic Network
`has a head~start on group projects and
`online experts. Furthermore, Scholastic
`is offering more to subscribers who
`want some of both worlds; in addition
`to the ability to send e—mail to people
`on the Internet (offered by both ser—
`vices), the Seholastie Network has
`recently added access to other Internet
`services including news groups, gopher
`directories (which help users search for
`information and services on the
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