August 14, 2012

摘要

I Started in education technology in 1986 as an editor at one of the early educational software publishers, Sunburst Communications (raise your hand if you had one of those traffic-cone-orange binders in your classroom). It was a great place to begin my career in ed tech: The emphasis was on the power of computers to teach problem solving and creative thinking. We believed that these were the kinds of skills—not rote memorization—that students needed to thrive in the 20th century. In 1992,I became editor in chief of Electronic Learning. The cover story for the first issue I oversaw was entitled "The New Literacy." The subhead read: "The literacy skills of the last 20 centuries will not take our students into the next one."