EDUC 628-Spring-08

Stoll compares the knowledge translated by computers, from webpages, to comic books that he read from his Classics Illustrated collection when he was a child.  I don’t read comic books, but thinks that, like comic books, that multimedia writers….”task is to absorb and compress great gobs of information into small, easily digestible on-screen chunks.”

This man really is against multimedia and education, but I don’t think that when he wrote this that blogs existed as they do now, with educational content available on the Internet.

In the chapter CRTs for Tots, he mentions Seymour Papert’s vision on page 62, opposing Papert’s ideas, saying that computers and technology “…isolates us from each other,” 

I do not think computers isolate us from each other at all.  Maybe people spend too much time on the computer, or on the phone, or watching TV, and that this time could be spent reading a book instead.  People can read books too.  Homework assignments, and school assignments can incorporate reading as well as some technology.  I don’t think it is one or the other.  It is both.