Towards a National Information Infrastructure for Education

到世纪末，技术可以让所有的美国人 我们文明中有组织的信息和知识。 的 电视机及电脑晶片可透过宽频网络连接 或者以其它方式将数字化信息，包括文本， 声音和移动图像。 这样的发展将具有深远意义 教育和独特的教育机会;检查教育 以及这种发展对新的和现有的学习者的社会效益; 并以一种 提醒公共和私人决策者采取行动， 这个独特的机会。 具体而言，这项活动将： O 综合目前已知的影响因素， 数字家庭终端的开发和成本;交换 为家庭、学校和工作场所提供宽带通信;以及 公共和商业数字数据库; O 评估一个国家的教育和社会效益 学校内外使用的基础设施;并说明新的 为这一基础设施提供公共和私人资金的备选办法， 教育用途; O 发展一系列偶然选择的描述， 从这里到那里， O 评估对发展方向和速度的影响， 国家信息基础设施，如果公共和私人决定- 制定者要考虑到教育需求， 电子信息服务可以发挥作用; O 评估受影响的教育群体的反应， 包括改革运动，这个新的教育机会， 以及对公立学校的影响;以及 在研究期间和研究结束时积极努力， 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.