ABSTRACT
Pupils enter the classroom and find that, as usual, there are computers with word processing facilities on their work tables and two further computers in the room. The class is studying the Industrial Revolution in early 19th century Britain. The students have been involved in collecting information about working conditions in mines and factories, about child labour and about insanitary housing. The teacher organises the class into groups. The pupils are to use their word processors to produce newspapers representing the various political views which might have been held in a 19th century mining community in north eastern Britain. The computer by the teacher's desk springs into life, simulating a teleprinter, and the pupils begin to collect this information as the basis for the newspaper accounts.
