The web and stuff
education
TechCrunch has an interesting report about how Bill Gates has been speaking at a conference in Lake Tahoe called Techonomy about the future of education. His central thesis was that, in the not-too-distant future, you’ll be able to get a better further education using the web than you could simply at a single University institution. [...]
I’ve just come across Dan Lockton’s thoughtful post on Education, forcing functions and understanding, which looks at some of the ways in which textbooks and computer software can sometimes try to ‘force’ learning within educational contexts. The post is part of his Architectures of Control blog, a look at how design tries to force behaviour, [...]