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> This sort of thing is not designed to help students who are gifted enough to pass a course without reading the textbook. It will inevitably be used to hassle
by pjscott 12y ago
> This sort of thing is not designed to help students who are gifted enough to pass a course without reading the textbook.
It will inevitably be used to hassle those students, though. You know an easy way to make unusually smart students hate school? Just try to impose a time-consuming, slow, one-size-fits-all study schedule on them by force.
- grkvlt 12y agoNo. It will not inevitably be used like that. It may through short-sighted and wrong-headed thinking be used like that. I quite definitely is not intended to be used like that. Let's judge things on their intent, rather than hypothetical ways they can be abused. This sort of thing is designed to prevent one-size-fits-all schedules, while still managing to report and analyse the effectiveness of the material. Without analytics and metrics we have just been guessing, so technologies like active textbooks are going to give an amazing amount of insight into the best way to design courses to benefit the maximum number of students. We no longer have to worry about the smartest kids getting ahead of the class and becoming bored and disruptive, because their textbooks will download extra material designed to be of interest and use to them, for which they will receive additional credit. And so on...