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The Education Challenge
Pages 125-130

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From page 125...
... First of all, I deeply believe that there is enormous opportunity to improve education through the use of information technology, and that information tech125
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From page 126...
... What resulted from the chance encounter of savvy humanists and several of us computer scientists was the creation of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, which explores the use of information technology in humanistic scholarship. Now for the promised example.
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From page 127...
... In fact, we have letters and diaries that we could not have had access to before information technology. Ed took our scanners over to Staunton, put a notice in the paper and asked people to go up in the attic and bring down letters from ancestors who were living at that time and bring them in to be scanned.
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From page 128...
... As I understand it, the data suggest that students only capture one-tenth of what is said in a lecture, so clearly the format was not designed to optimize learning! We make little or no use of student-student interactions as an integral part of the pedagogy, yet one of the things that information technology facilitates is student-to-student interactions.
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From page 129...
... We need to be willing to make fundamental changes, not just use technology to do what we are already doing a little bit better. I hear Bruce Alberts talk all the time about the fact that we know how to educate better but we do not do it.
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