Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Wireless Tech Gives 'Continuing Education' New Meaning

Stephen Downes

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This story gets some of it right - that wireless access will lead to new opportunities for online learning, that must new learners will be non-traditional students, that they will seek learning in short bursts. But contra the author, wireless is not going to herald the comeback of e-books (if anything, wireless will doom e-books to oblivion (who wants a special reader on top of wireless access? Not me)). Wireless will also change the nature of internet access in schools (and before long we'll have the usual run of stories about this new technology intruding into the teachers' lessons).

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