Threshold Magazine
Fall 2005

The Fall 2005 issue of Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles on learning in a digital world, produced in partnership with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).

	Lessons from the Broadband Frontier Douglas Levin explores the implications of Cable in the Classroom's broadband learning demonstrations.
	Web-Based Digital Content: Promise and Practice Overcoming the disconnect between the potential of web-based digital content for learning and how it is commonly used—or not, as observed by Mark Hofer.
	Digital Backpack Karen Greenwood Henke visualizes how the latest gadgets will reset our idea of classroom computing.
	Transforming Textbooks: A Threshold Forum Bruce Wilcox, Joseph M. Porto, Stephen Driesler, Timothy J. Magner, and Anita Givens discuss the issues of digital curriculum and print textbooks at the crossroads of technical and curricular change.
	The Digital School A demonstration school goes digital—what will it take for the rest of us? Ocoee Middle School Principal Katherine C. Clark shares her experiences.
	From Multimedia to Multisensory Education David J. Staley looks at the future of digital learning as information we can see, feel, and experience.
	Departments
	Contributors The people behind the words and ideas in this issue.
	Explorations Beyond the Textbook: An introduction to this issue by Helen Soulé of Cable in the Classroom and Keith Krueger of the Consortium for School Networking.
	Eye on Research Reading in a Digital Age: Two previously unpublished studies demonstrate the effects of common digital support features on reading comprehension.
	New Voices Digital Youth: How today's students use digital content at school vs. home.
	In Focus Learner's Choice: Frank Withrow explores where digital technologies will take us if education follows the path created by other transformative technologies.

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