ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to acquaint content area teachers with possibilities for incorporating digitized resources into content area curriculum and pedagogy. It help reader to organize the available information and gives ideas for using digital resources in the classroom. A hypertext environment occurs when the reader is the navigator through the text, between nodes of information with multiple links. An exciting realization about hypertext is that it mimics the ways sophisticated readers read nearly all print-based materials, with exceptions being novels and poetry. It is typical for readers to approach informational text in nonlinear ways, consulting dictionaries, appendices, and indexes, and skipping ahead and rereading. David Jonassen describes the history of digital advances in education in three stages. Initially, learners were told about computers-how they operated, what the parts were, how to use the keyboard, and how to program.
