Introduction: Effectiveness of Information Technology

This article highlights some of the difficulties that have led to assaults on integrating information technology into the schools. It acknowledges the scarcity of solid evidence to support claims that inserting information technology into education does improve learning. Some currently existing roadblocks to integration are reported. The article, however, points out that positive examples do exist and highlights one of the major research articles in this collection authored by the guest editors, Gerald Knezek and Rhonda Christensen.