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I can think of numerous education issues that might be raised within the context of a report on the development of an internet based encyclopedia at a conference devoted to computers in education. We might ask, for instance, whether schoolwork prepared by pupils who use a hypertextual encyclopedia is more or less focused than that of pupils who use traditional encyclopedias (without passing judgment on whether focus is a positive or a negative quality), or we might ask if teachers change the nature of their assignments, making them more integrative than in the past, because of the availability of a hypertextual encyclopedia. At this particular session, however, neither these, or any other, questions were asked. Instead, we found ourselves attending a promo for the encyclopedia, listening to unsubstantiated superlatives on how great such a tool is for education, directed solely toward convincing us to subscribe.

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Go to: New kid on the block, or
Go to: They come in all shapes and sizes, or
Go to: Too Common Knowledge.