Information technology in education

Since the 1991 ARIST chapter on this topic by Einsenberg & Spitzer, the literature on the use of information, technologu in schools has increased substantially. This chapter discusses information terhcnology in teacher education, teaching, and learning in K-12 education from 1991 to 1993, primarily in the United States, but with as much information about other countries as possible in the space allowed. Information technology here includes computer applications that store, communicate, retrieve, share , disseminate, and manage information fom internal and external sources. The literatue discussed in this chapter falls into several overlapping categories that: (1) link information technology to fundamental education reform; (2) describe computer hardware and the increasing number of software applications and electronic resources residing on various media used in schools; (3) discuss instructional uses of information technology; (4) examine electronic networks and their uses by students and teachers; (5) center on school library media centers and information technology; and (6) suggest changing roles for shool library media specialists inan era of rapid technological change