Spring 2000 , TAM Course "Designing the Information Society of the Next Millennium" – Ernesto Arias and Gerhard Fischer

 

Assignment 5

 

 

due: post on web by Monday, Feb 14, 10:00am

 

Read the article

Fischer, G.: "Making Learning a Part of Life – Beyond the ‘Gift Wrapping Approach’ to Technology", at

http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/presentations/gf-wlf/

 

 

 

 

Briefly discuss the following issues:

  1. what did you find
    1. interesting about the article?
    2. not interesting about the article?
  2. what do you consider the main message of the article?
  3. describe two examples of systems/approaches
    1. of "gift-wrapping"
    2. of transcending "gift-wrapping"
  4. assuming that transcending "gift-wrapping" is desirable, what do you consider the major challenges to achieve this goal?