The computer screen is ill-suited to conveying broadly structured, tightly logical argumentation … The Internet conveys, on a large scale, the interactive and fluid nature of all academic work, but it also produces chaos that is often at best only a waste of time.
Predictor: Roddy, Kevin
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 online newsletter for the University of California, Davis, Kevin Roddy, a Medieval Studies professor writes about e-learning. He writes:”Though the network has made scholarship on a subject more immediate and more widely available, the computer screen is ill-suited to conveying broadly structured, tightly logical argumentation … The Internet conveys, on a large scale, the interactive and fluid nature of all academic work, but it also produces chaos that is often at best only a waste of time.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Information Technology Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Teaching with the Internet: What There is and What There Might Be
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://ittimes.ucdavis.edu/v2n3sprg94/teaching.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Jagrup, Shavanna