"Technology is now in the Mainstream of the 21st Century Classroom"

Marin educators creating the 21st century classroom: "CHILDREN in Bryan Nielsen's third-grade class at Sausalito's Bayside Elementary School have moved beyond simple staging of a makeshift skit to become their own video and editing crew - filming their efforts and editing on computer with animation, titles and sound.

'It's a new standard of enthusiasm, I think is the biggest thing,' Neilsen said, describing his students' interest in use of the school's multimedia tools in their production of Aesop's fable, 'The Ant and the Grasshopper.'

But far from being in the vanguard, Nielsen's class is in the mainstream of the 21st century classroom, in which sophisticated high-tech equipment is being used in myriad ways at all levels by students and teachers alike."