ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a case study on the introduction of an interactive cable technology in beginner, intermediate, and advanced literacy classes during a school year. The experiment with Videoway technology in literacy classes took place during the 1992–1993 school year in a community center located in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a division of the city of Montreal. The objectives pursued in advanced literacy classes are to develop reading, writing, and computing abilities on the one hand, and to foster the students’ personal and social development, on the other, that is, raising their self-confidence, showing them practical life skills, and broadening their cultural horizons. The teachers each received three Videoway consoles, which were installed at the rear of each classroom, such that the teacher could monitor the screen from her desk in the front. Videogames of all sorts were the main information content employed in the beginner classes.
