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Kai: how media affects learning

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Timelines provides perspectives on HCI history, glancing back at a road that sometimes took unexpected branches and turns. History is not a dry list of events; it is about points of view and differing interpretations. Jonathan Grudin, Editor

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  1. The book is The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read, and Remember. The review is found at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n05/jim-holt/smarter-happier-more-productive.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. Translations of Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett (1892) and Harold Fowler (1925) can be downloaded from multiple sites on the web. Quotations here are from a recent translation by Alexander Nehamus and Paul Woodruff in John M. Cooper (Ed.), Plato: Complete Works, Hackett Publishing 1997, except in a few places where Jowett's style was appealing.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. Thamus anticipated software development in formulating this advice.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  4. Plato was dismissed and his work lost in Europe where his student Aristotle was favored, but thankfully his work was admired and preserved in the Middle East.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  5. Plato did, however, have ideas that he would not write down, apparently fearing that they would be unfairly criticized in his absence. Aristotle mentioned that Plato's "unwritten teaching" differed in particulars from his writings, but Aristotle was not specific, perhaps out of deference to his teacher.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

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        cover image Interactions
        Interactions  Volume 18, Issue 5
        September + October 2011
        80 pages
        ISSN:1072-5520
        EISSN:1558-3449
        DOI:10.1145/2008176
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