Can ICT provide more opportunities for "Exceptional Lives"

So far, I find this book to be generally well written and the content comprehensive. The personal stories at the beginning of  each chapter are believable and help to make the material easier to understand. However, the layout of the book could be changed and improved with the help of ICT enabled features. The book content is constantly interrupted with sidebars, inserts and margin tips all over the pages. Unfortunately, this is a concept that is all too common in modern textbooks. In my opinion a ICT enabled support system would would provide readers a much more engaging experience. Perhaps that is the intent of the access to an online learning lab-- mycomputerlab.com. Well, my colleague and I found no access code anywhere on the book or in the packaging. The book is still exceptional just in print but more opportunities could be unleashed if the ICT enabled features were included in the over $100 fee. If Mrs. Vance (my 4th grade elementary teacher) could have used this material, perhaps she would have been better prepared to work with students like myself instead of blaming us for her deficit thinking approaches to educating low-income students.