In this chapter I was surprised at the mention of the invention of the portable printing press. Time magazine lists it as the greatest innovation of the second millennium. I thought that Time would have chosen the Internet or the computer instead. Within the last year I read a book about Gutenberg and the invention of movable type -- Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words. The book noted that there were three main explosions of knowledge corresponding to the development of writing, the alphabet, and the internet -- with the fourth event the invention of movable type and the printing press. The change on the number of books available before and after Gutenberg corresponds to the available knowledge before and after the internet. What exciting times we live in!
Just as teaching changed when all students could have a textbook of their own, teaching will change when all students have access to technology. I'm not sure that we are there yet, but we need to start changing the way we teach in order to be ready for that day.
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