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Saturday, November 06, 2004
Wireless Classrooms: Evolution or Extinction? - Howard Strauss, Syllabus
Automatic Teller Machines initially appeared inside banks, right next to the human tellers they emulated. ATMs disbursed money and accepted deposits, but when banks closed for the day, ATMs were locked inside, as useful and accessible as the vacant teller cages they abutted. Locked inside a bank, ATMs provided a few evolutionary advantages over human tellers. Waiting lines were shorter and ATMs never took breaks. There was a loss of human contact. An ATM never asked about Uncle Larry’s gout or suggested a loan for your daughter. Wireless notebook initially appeared inside classrooms on the same laps that previously held paper notebooks or wired laptops. Wireless notebooks could be used to look things up and do classroom collaboration, but when class was over and students were out of range of wireless access points, wireless laptops were not much better than the paper or silicon solutions they superseded. Even limited to classrooms, wireless laptops had some evolutionary advantages, but these did not begin to exploit the possibilities of mobile intelligent devices.
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