Towards a National Information Infrastructure for Education

到本世纪末，技术可以让所有美国人获得我们文明的有组织的信息和知识。电视机兼计算机芯片可以通过宽带网络或以其他方式连接到数字化信息的档案，包括文本、声音和运动图像。这样的发展将拥有深刻的教育和独特的教育机会；审查这一发展对初学者和现有学习者的教育和社会效益；并以一种提醒公共和私人决策者注意可能影响这一独特机会的行动的方式进行和传播这一调查的结果。具体地说，这项活动将：o综合目前已知的影响数字家庭终端的开发和成本的因素；家庭、学校和工作场所的交换宽带通信；以及公共和商业数字数据库；O评估学校内外使用的国家信息基础设施的教育和社会效益；说明为教育用途的这一基础设施提供公共和私人资金的新选择；o说明从这里到那里的一系列或有选择；O评估如果公共和私人决策者考虑到电子信息服务可以服务的教育需要，对国家信息基础设施发展方向和发展速度的影响；评估受影响的教育群体，包括改革派运动，对这一新的教育机会的反应，以及对公共资助学校的影响；并在研究期间和结束时积极努力传播这一调查的概念和结果。

By the end of the century, technology could allow all Americans access to the organized information and knowledge of our civilization. The television set cum computer chip could be linked by broadband networks or in other ways to archieves of digitized information, including text, sound and moving images. Such a development would hold profound educational and unique educational opportunity; examine the educational and social benefits of this development for new and existing learners; and conduct and disseminate the results of this inquiry in a way that alerts public and private decision-makers to actions that can affect this unique opportunity. Specifically, this activity will: o synthesize what is presently known about factors affecting the development and cost of the digital home terminal; switched broadband communications to the home, school and work place; and public and commercial digital databases; o assess the educational and social benefits of a national information infrastructure for use in and outside of school; and describe new options for public and private financing of this infrastructure for educational use; o develop descriptions of a series of contingent options for getting from here to there; o assess the effect on the direction and rate of development of the national information infrastructure, if public and private decision- makers were to take into account the educational needs that electronic information services could serve; o assess the reaction of affected educational constituencies, including reformist movements, to this new educational opportunity, and to effects on publicly-financed schooling; and strive actively during and at the onclusion of the study to disseminate the concept and results of this inquiry.