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The More We Know - 9780262017947

Un libro in lingua di Eric Klopfer Jason Haas Jenkins Henry (FRW) edito da Mit Pr, 2012

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In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watchingvideos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching networknews on television; they got most of their information online. So when NBC and MIT launched iCue, aninteractive learning venture that combined social networking, online video, and gaming in onemultimedia educational site, it was perfectly in tune with the times. iCue was a surefire way forNBC to reach younger viewers and for MIT to test innovative educational methods in the real world.But iCue was a failure: it never developed an audience and was canceled as if it were a sitcom withbad ratings. In The More We Know, Eric Klopfer and Jason Haas, both part of theMIT development team, describe the rise and fall of iCue and what it can teach us about new media,old media, education, and the challenges of innovating in educational media. Klopfer and Haas showthat iCue was hampered by, among other things, an educational establishment focused on"teaching to the test," television producers uncomfortable with participatory media, andconfusion about the market. But this is not just a cautionary tale; sometimes more can be learnedfrom an interesting failure than a string of successes. Today's educational technology visionaries(iPads for everyone!) might keep this lesson in mind.

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