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Monday, June 07, 2004
The "Newest Media" and a Principled Approach for Integrating Technology Into Instruction - Susan Ambrose and Joel Smith, Syllabus
When and how should new media be incorporated into instruction? Two leaders in instructional technology and cognitive science from Carnegie Mellon University offer concrete suggestions from their experience, illustrated by applications of new media by the Open Learning Initiative at CMU. “New media in instruction?” Déjà vu. Didn’t we write that article more than a decade ago? Wasn’t it about HyperCard and JPEGs and Internet resources for teaching and learning? Isn’t that “old media” yet? Some of the “New Media Centers” originally sponsored by Apple Computer are still here, but now they are populated with “iLife.” The “new” in new media is ever-changing. There will always be novel opportunities and technologies, but there will also be not-so-novel questions about the integration of new media in education. As Clark and Mayer (2003) remind us, “What we have learned from all the media comparison research is that it’s not the medium, but rather the instructional methods that cause learning.” This is a reflection on the enduring question of the relationship between the “newest media” and instructional methods.
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