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New educational environments
It is clear that we will make the move from books to screens, but books will never disappear. They will never fully replace each other.
Reading on paper and reading on a screen are quite different. Especially if the screen is connected.
Screens permit hypertexts, collaboration and audiovisuals.
The same is true of writing. Writing is transformed and it is well worth teaching to write in a different way from the beginning.
Writing must be hyper-media, which is not the same as hypertext, i.e. using several different media.
It must also be collaborative. It must be collaborative and audiovisual.
The books of the future will have to contain texts, paper and the possibility to discover, open new horizons,
of having what is now starting to be called primary sources, in the sense that the world can be read through the internet.
There is choice but to use hypertext, both in reading and writing, and interactivity seems to be a fundamental issue.
Participation and collaboration must be the order of the day. But there has been a fair amount of dupe regarding these values,
in the sense that, from now on, everything must be like this. Well no.
What is clear is that when two people talk to each other, the best means of communication they have is conversation.
If we plan a screen between a teacher and the students, we are killing off that personal relationship.
Conservation is always going to be the analysis model for any other semiotic, and if it is the analysis model for any other semiotic,
it is because conversation is the most complex of all existing systems. All others are a simplification of conversation.