Are teachers and students participating in construction of the information infrastructure?
The premise of the NSNT is that everyone would have an opportunity to participate in constructing the information infrastructure. The information infrastructure includes data, information, knowledge, how these are organized, the tools for manipulating information, and the ways in which one interacts with other people through the networks and in relation to information and knowledge. In 1994, such participation typically meant creating files published online in a Gopher space, participating in newsgroups, or participating in email-based projects and forums. Today, it typically means building and publishing WWW pages, or contributing to group discussions or data collection in online forums, projects, telementoring exchanges or email lists. At the beginning of the NSNT, at least a third of the participants said their students would be creating digital libraries and making them accessible to others via Internet for learning and teaching. Often this agenda was coupled with a community servi
