[snip] > > (Viii) Niyam and Raj raised points of flash being evil and make > content non-accessible to the people, Which Included "Forget Einstein > Children will not even become Frankenstein" >[snip]
ah no! flash is "not evil", just not a formal, open standard, does not allow searchable tagging, reusable content, and lots of other technical issues and issues that result from it being a non-OASIS or other standard. too much to list here, but you get the picture. Einstein <> Frankenstein was in a different context all together. how the approach to education and learning is becoming more obsessed with 'container' rather than 'content.' how the seductive idea that IF as a parent or teacher you could provide a full broadband connection on a multimedia-savvy hi-end pc; or a generation ago, a multimedia-CDROM encyclopedia; before that VHS tapes on education +learning, and tv broadcasts, before that radio-for-literacy-and-education; before that the printed-edition of the entire volume of the encyclopaedia, and so on... somehow you can give 'instant gratification literacy and education in a box'. now it flash-based education, and web-based learning. anyhows, please hold your discussions until we all meet for our special track on education and learning, as valsa and others proposed. :-) niyam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
