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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 23:18:16 -0500 (EST)
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From: Nancy Ammerman <emoryu1!phoenix.Princeton.EDU!nancyamm>
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Chapter 12: EDUCATION AND THE NET
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12.1 THE NET IN THE CLASSROOM
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If you're a teacher, you've probably already begun to see the
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potential the Net has for use in the class. Usenet, ftp and telnet have
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tremendous educational potential, from keeping up with world events to
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arranging international science experiments.
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Because the Net now reaches so many countries and often stays
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online even when the phones go down, you and your students can "tune
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in" to first-hand accounts during international conflicts. Look at
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your system's list of Usenet soc.culture groups to see if there is one
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about the country or region you're interested in. Even in peacetime,
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these newsgroups can be great places to find people from countries you
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might be studying.
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The biggest problem may be getting accounts for your students, if
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you're not lucky enough to live within the local calling area of a
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Free-Net system. Many colleges and universities, however, are willing
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to discuss providing accounts for secondary students at little or no
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cost. Several states, including California and Texas, have Internet-
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linked networks for teachers and students.
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12.2 SOME SPECIFIC RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
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In addition, there are a number of resources on the Internet aimed
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specifically at elementary and secondary students and teachers. You
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can use these to set up science experiments with classes in another
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country, learn how to use computers in the classroom or keep up with the
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latest advances in teaching everything from physics to physical
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education.
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Among them:
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AskERIC Run by the Educational Resource and Information Center,
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AskERIC provides a way for educators, librarians and
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others interested in K-12 education to get more
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information about virtually everything. The center
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maintains an e-mail address (askeric@ericir.syr.edu) for
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questions and promises answers within 48 hours. It also
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maintains a gopher site that contains digests of
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questions and answers, lesson plans in a variety of
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fields and other educationally related information. The
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gopher address is ericir.syr.edu.
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Health-Ed: A mailing list for health educators. Send a request to
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health-ed-request@stjhmc.fidonet.org
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K12Net: Begun on the Fidonet hobbyist network, K12Net is now also
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carried on many Usenet systems and provides a host of
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interesting and valuable services. These include
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international chat for students, foreign-language
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discussions (for example, there are French and German-
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only conference where American students can practice
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those languages with students from Quebec and German).
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There are also conferences aimed at teachers of specific
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subjects, from physical education to physics. The K12
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network still has limited distribution, so ask your
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system administrator if your system carries it.
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Kidsphere: Kidsphere is a mailing list for elementary and secondary
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teachers, who use it to arrange joint projects and
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discuss educational telecommunications. You will find
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news of new software, lists of sites from which you can
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get computer-graphics pictures from various NASA
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satellites and probes and other news of interest to
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modem-using teachers.
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To subscribe, send a request by e-mail to kidsphere-
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request@vms.cis.pitt.edu or joinkids@vms.cis.pitt.edu and
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you will start receiving messages within a couple of
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days.
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To contribute to the discussion, send messages to
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kidsphere@vms.cis.pitt.edu.
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KIDS is a spin-off of KIDSPHERE just for students
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who want to contact students. To subscribe, send a
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request to joinkids@vms.cis.pitt.edu, as above. To
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contribute, send messages to kids@vms.cist.pitt.edu.
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Knoxville Using the newspaper in the electronic classroom. This
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News- gopher site lets students and teachers connect to
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Sentinel the newspaper, and provides resources for them derived
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Online from the newsroom. Use gopher to connect to
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gopher.opup.org
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MicroMUSE This is an online, futuristic city, built entirely by
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participants (see chapter 11 for information on MUSEs
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and MUDs in general). Hundreds of students from all
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over have participated in this educational exercise,
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coordinated by MIT. Telnet to michael.ai.mit.edu.
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Log on as guest and then follow the prompts for more
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information.
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NASA Spacelink: This system, run by NASA in Huntsville, Ala.,
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provides all sorts of reports and data about NASA, its
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history and its various missions, past and present.
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Telnet spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov or 128.158.13.250.
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When you connect, you'll be given an overview of the
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system and asked to register. The system maintains a
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large file library of GIF-format space graphics, but note
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that you can't download these through telnet. If you want
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to, you have to dial the system directly, at (205) 895-
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0028. Many can be obtained through ftp from
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ames.arc.nasa.gov, however.
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Newton: Run by the Argonne National Laboratory, it offers
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conferences for teachers and students, including one
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called "Ask a Scientist."
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Telnet: newton.dep.anl.gov.
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Log in as: cocotext
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You'll be asked to provide your name and address. When
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you get the main menu, hit 4 for the various conferences.
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The "Ask a Scientist" category lets you ask questions of
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scientists in fields from biology to earth science.
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Other categories let you discuss teaching, sports and
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computer networks.
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OERI: The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational
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Resources and Improvement runs a gopher system that
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provides numerous educational resources, information and
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statistics for teachers. Use gopher to connect to
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gopher.ed.gov.
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Spacemet Forum: If your system doesn't carry the K12 conferences, but
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does provide you with telnet, you can reach the
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conferences through SpaceMet Forum, a bulletin-board
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system aimed at teachers and students that is run by the
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physics and astronomy department at the University of
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Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Telnet: spacemet.phast.umass.edu.
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When you connect, hit escape once, after which you'll be
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asked to log on. Like K12Net, SpaceMet Forum began as a
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Fidonet system, but has since grown much larger. Mort
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and Helen Sternheim, professors at the university,
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started SpaceMet as a one-line bulletin-board system
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several years ago to help bolster middle-school science
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education in nearby towns.
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In addition to the K12 conferences, SpaceMet carries
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numerous educationally oriented conferences. It also has
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a large file library of interest to educators and
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students, but be aware that getting files to your site
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could be difficult and maybe even impossible. Unlike
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most other Internet sites, Spacemet does not use an ftp
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interface. The Sternheims say ZMODEM sometimes works over
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the network, but don't count on it.
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12.3 USENET AND BITNET IN THE CLASSROOM
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There are numerous Usenet newsgroups of potential interest to
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teachers and students.
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As you might expect, many are of a scientific bent. You can find
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these by typing l sci. in rn or using nngrep sci. for nn. There are now
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close to 40, with subjects ranging from archaeology to economics (the
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"dismal science," remember?) to astronomy to nanotechnology (the
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construction of microscopically small machines).
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One thing students will quickly learn from many of these groups:
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science is not just dull, boring facts. Science is argument and standing
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your ground and making your case. The Usenet sci. groups encourage
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critical thinking.
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Beyond science, social-studies and history classes can keep busy
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learning about other countries, through the soc.culture newsgroups.
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Most of these newsgroups originated as ways for expatriates of a
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given country to keep in touch with their homeland and its culture. In
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times of crisis, however, these groups often become places to
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disseminate information from or into the country and to discuss what is
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happening. From Afghanistan to Yugoslavia, close to 50 countries are
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now represented on Usenet.
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To see which groups are available, use l soc.culture. in rn or
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nngrep soc.culture. for nn.
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Several "talk" newsgroups provide additional topical discussions,
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but teachers should screen them first before recommending them to
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students. They range from talk.abortion and talk.politics.guns to
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talk.politics.space and talk.environment.
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One caveat: Teachers might want to peruse particular newsgroups
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before setting their students loose in them. Some have higher levels of
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flaming and blather than others.
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There are also a number of Bitnet discussion groups of potential
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interest to students and teachers. See Chapter 5 for information on
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finding and subscribing to Bitnet discussion groups. Some with an
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educational orientation include:
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biopi-l ksuvm.bitnet Secondary biology education
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chemed-l uwf.bitnet Chemistry education
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dts-l iubvm.bitnet The Dead Teacher's Society list
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phys-l uwf.bitnet Discussions for physics teachers
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physhare psuvm.bitnet Where physics teachers share resources
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scimath-l psuvm.bitnet Science and math education
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To get a list of ftp sites that carry astronomical images in the GIF
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graphics format, use ftp to connect to nic.funet.fi. Switch to the
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/pub/astro/general directory and get the file astroftp.txt. Among the
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sites listed is ames.arc.nasa.gov, which carries images taken by the
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Voyager and Galileo probes, among other pictures.
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