68% of teachers believe e-mail access is essential for education process

A survey by US Dept of Education shows that more than half of all teachers believe presence of such technologies as CD-ROM encyclopedias and reference works, telephones, WWW access and teacher workstations with e-mail access is essential to the learning process.

Technologies essential to teaching
Technology	% of teachers feeling this is essential
Video camera	18
Full page scanner	20
Multimedia authoring program	21
Presentation software	35
At least one computer for every four students in classroom	49
Encyclopedia and other reference works on CD-ROM	51
Telephone in classroom	56
World Wide Web access in classroom	61
Teacher computer station with access to electronic mail	68
Source: National Center for Education Statistics