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.
Learning from learning from cyberspace
This post is a response to Cousin, G. (2005) Learning from cyberspace in Land, R. and Bayne, S. (eds) Education in cyberspace. London, RoutledgeFalmer. pp. 117-129. It’s probably only a Google Scholar search away for those of you with an ac.uk login, but unfortunately not for the rest of you.
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