Ellen Hrebeniuk's Profile

• Only a small proportion of respondents in any age group say they use
  ‘emergent technology’ (e.g. Web 2.0 applications) in their research, although
  those that do generally find it valuable.

If we'd had just one functioning computer, connected to the entire world—and
in this case, to the universe—in that classroom, within literally a minute Mark
would have attained multimodal comprehension. Sure, we had a big library
upstairs, but I couldn't leave the rest of my class to take Mark on a Mars
quest. So the librarian sat, probably alone, in her information monarchy.

These are relatively minor technical problems that generally already have
solutions. The bigger issue I see is that thinking of the problem as "how do we
get a textbook onto an iPhone" is framing it wrong. The challenge is "how do we
use a medium that already shares 3 of our 5 senses -- eyes, ears, and a mouth --
along with geolocation, color video, and a nearly-always-on Web connection to
accomplish the 'job' of educating a student." That's a much more interesting
problem to me than "how do we port 2-page book layouts to a small screen."