Scrimshaw (1997) examines the teacher’s role in classrooms with computers. He argues that teachers need to teach the process of learning rather than its products. The conventional learning skills, such as locating, collating and summarising information, and identifying connections and contradictions within a body of information, all need to be explicitly moved to the centre of the curriculum. The development of such skills needs to be supported using appropriate forms of software. This requires the explicit teaching of ways of organising cooperative activities involving computers, whether in face-to-face groups around a single machine, or through cooperation at a distance via a conferencing or email system. In order to do this, teachers themselves need more opportunities and support in using the new technologies in collaborative contexts, so that they can both identify the problems and possibilities for themselves, and find ways to model these