ABSTRACT
Academics vary greatly in the extent to which they have embraced IT in their teaching and research. Many continue to work, as they have always done, without any recourse to the computers, peripherals and other electronic props to which others are now devoted. Such indifference is often deplored by those who have embraced IT with an almost evangelical zeal. The charge is not only that their more traditional colleagues are denying themselves the benefits of IT; it is that, through both their outmoded personal examples and failure to incorporate IT into their teaching, they are letting down their students. As teachers, they have a responsibility to introduce them to all the ways in which disciplinary knowledge can be acquired and analyzed. Their failure to incorporate IT into that scenario is, therefore, tantamount to professional negligence.
