[quoting Sims, 17 Mar 95] ...it is important to recognize that multimedia as a medium is NOT better than the traditional medium--how we use it is what is critical. And the control issue is one which has received perhaps more research and debate than anything else over the past 20 years of CAL/interactive multimedia.
Those with gray hairs and yellow teeth will always remember the continued claims that new technology will solve all educational problems. I say BEWARE. And anyway, once we are all ensnared by the web, it all be a different ball game.
I don't yet (or ever expect to) have yellow teeth (which dentist do you visit, Rod?) yet am conscious of what is being referred to in the above message. Are we really about to drag up the hoary old myths about the effects of particular media on learning--and worst still, begin to debate them all over again? Shouldn't we address issues of more currency--the sort of things both Tom Reeves [ITForum #5] and Ron Oliver [current] have invited us to consider in their recent papers?