Bringing our own devices
We’ve been working our way along the development curve of moving the school to #byod. If it’s a new idea to you, what we are trying to achieve is an environment where any user can bring any device they like to school and access all the services they require using it.
Hypertext, Hyperreaders and Hyperlearners
From greek origin, hypertext is referring to “beyond”, or “over” text. It is often thought to be a reference to electronic texts, but is far more about the style of that text rather than the medium. Landow refers to it as “reader centered encounters with text” which I think is the nicest definition I have come across. Hypermedia is another term that tends to get tucked in here, suggesting that hypertext can include images, videos and the like as well as simple textual content.
Why we should advertise to children
So the title is probably a little more provocative than it needs to be, but there is something to consider in here. As schools should we be worried about the way our students are advertised to online? It feels a little like another one of those fence around the swimming pool vs. teach them to swim arguments.
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