are essentially three, Evan Schnittman considers the ways in which we read that immersive , which usually we use when we dive, and maybe just as well, "full leisurely we glide" in the sequential reading of texts from beginning to end on analog formats, but the e-ink screen tools such as Kindle and fellow promise hours to convert to digital, thus creating a new genre: the digital immersive reading, the mining , typical of the digital and the internet from which to search and find data and information with high degrees of optimization which we are accustomed to - but not for but to read find sources or references, and the teaching typical learning from textbooks, which contains linear experience mining practice is both immersive and that was the primitive form of reading, what we used to learn to read.
The first attempts were based electronic publishing, with a great failure on the creation of documents of an immersive, the shift to the extracted document, however, marked a "new era" of electronic publications because it is easily done on the screen, because they do not need (in fact, rejects them ...) for long periods of reading the warning r. As for teaching reading, suffer from the backwardness and the technology and pedagogical used so far do not know, among other things, create more distance in the digital and the eco-environment that makes the fortune of teaching "in presence" (but we know that, as refers to a recent survey of "Social Media Higher Education" already over 80% of university teachers uses social media and more than half makes teaching tools).
All true, Schnittman continues until Apple has launched iPad, that would be destined to become the first device-platform to achieve significant progress in education - particularly higher education, and for several reasons. The first is called iWork the productivity suite that integrates Apple's presentation, spreadsheet, word processor, and then entertainment. The second is called pornography, not explicitly accessible iPad , just to give a tool to paint Puritan "educational": "Folks Who Want porn can buy an Android phone, 'Steve Jobs promises caustic . The third is the inter-operability that allows iPad concurrent applications to read from a Kindle Kobo to Nook, and so on. The fourth is called iBookstore , the instrument "wall" for this "balkanization" of the network into subnets protected and guaranteed through exclusive relationships with commercial publishers to influence sales and test models of access to content. But it is the most important, says Schnittman, although still not contained in the current configuration of iPad , and specifically concerns the educational content and provides exactly this function will deepen the market for digital textbooks as was never done. Because there are already tools that attempt this marriage, as www.entourageedge.com but not with eye-catching shapes of iPad : cunning of reason that through the pursuit of pleasure for the individual undertakes to pursue universal: "By putting the horse before the cart, Apple will Have What They Want given students first, only then Following it with the content They will need education. "
Evan Schnittman, The iPad: gateway drug to digital learning?
[pre-print for "The librarian, III series, ISSN 11250992, 3-4/2010]
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