David Wiley’s Remix Hypothesis[1] is that we won’t see the full impact of digital culture on education until we embrace the central affordance of digital media — its remixability, by which he means the ability of others to directly manipulate the media for reuse, revision, or adaptation to local circumstance. I think this is an important Continue reading

David Wiley has an excellent post out today on a subject dear to my heart — the failure to take advantage of the peculiar affordances of digital objects. Yeah, I know. Jargon. But here’s a phrase from Bret Victor that gets at what I mean: “We’re computer users thinking paper thoughts”  – Bret Victor You Continue reading

After the western invention of movable type not much changed for a very long time. It took many many years for people to realize the peculiar possibilities of cheap, printed texts. Gutenberg invents the Western version of movable type in the 1440s, and it’s in use by 1450. He thinks of it in terms of Continue reading