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Learning TechnologiesInteractive learning technologies versus textbooks
Lowie van Eck & Frans
Huigen
Wednesday, January 26th - 2015
Presentation topics
• The evolution of the e-book
• The medium is the message
• Connectivity
Afternoon, a story
by Michael Joyce
Project Gutenberg
The world first
electronic novel
The first commercial
E Ink device
E Ink
Backlight problem
The medium is the
message
What the internet is
doing to our brains
Snippets
Kindle PaperwhitePromoted more deep reading and less active
learning
The death of the novel
“do you also believe that
those readers will voluntarily
choose to disable that
connectivity? If your answer
to this is no, then the death of
the novel is sealed out of
your own mouth.”
- Will Self
Is connectivity the problem?
Integrated dictionary
Cross references
Hyperlinks
Endless distractions a
click/touch away
Using the internet as
personal memory bank
