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	<h1>Various texts from 1988 on<br>~~Aspects iof~~ Technology and Education</h1>		<h1>Various texts from 1988 on<br>Technology and Education</h1>

	<h3>Empower: The Educational Advisor</h3>		<h3>Empower: The Educational Advisor</h3>
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	We propose to create an interactive multimedia program designed to help people with the many diverse questions that they have about education, it should have a retail price of about $100 and should run on systems using optical ~~storagethat~~ should start to be widely available around 1990. Within that decade, systems that can run the program will become a standard consumer appliance and we intend that the program will become the standard source of educational information and ideas for the general public.		We propose to create an interactive multimedia program designed to help people with the many diverse questions that they have about education, it should have a retail price of about $100 and should run on systems using optical storage that should start to be widely available around 1990. Within that decade, systems that can run the program will become a standard consumer appliance and we intend that the program will become the standard source of educational information and ideas for the general public.

	All sorts of people have all sorts of questions about education. A great many guides and resources currently exist to help answer various types of questions that people have. These, however, aggregate into a thicket of information that only the most sophisticated can penetrate with ease. This situation, however, is ripe for change. It has become technically feasible to bring into a single multimedia resource, one that will be fun and easy to use, good responses to virtually any question about education that might reasonably be asked. Such a program should be called Empower: The Educational Advisor - the goal would be a resource that would help people solve for themselves any and all educational problems that they find themselves encountering.		All sorts of people have all sorts of questions about education. A great many guides and resources currently exist to help answer various types of questions that people have. These, however, aggregate into a thicket of information that only the most sophisticated can penetrate with ease. This situation, however, is ripe for change. It has become technically feasible to bring into a single multimedia resource, one that will be fun and easy to use, good responses to virtually any question about education that might reasonably be asked. Such a program should be called Empower: The Educational Advisor - the goal would be a resource that would help people solve for themselves any and all educational problems that they find themselves encountering.
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	If a resource of this character were done well, the market for it can soon become huge as the technology for using it will become, in one variation or another, a standard consumer appliance. Creating such a program at Teachers College makes sense: the College is the custodian of the requisite information about education and by creating the program, TC would help itself financially through a lucrative stream of royalties while it would help the public substantially improve educational actualities by bringing a better base of information to bear upon them.		If a resource of this character were done well, the market for it can soon become huge as the technology for using it will become, in one variation or another, a standard consumer appliance. Creating such a program at Teachers College makes sense: the College is the custodian of the requisite information about education and by creating the program, TC would help itself financially through a lucrative stream of royalties while it would help the public substantially improve educational actualities by bringing a better base of information to bear upon them.

	To bring off such a program, we will need to develop the preeminent database of practical information about education in all its forms and organize it for interactive query with a first-class user-interface for delivery to people on CD-I and ensuing technologies. In designing the database, it would be important not to structure it as an epitome of what experts putatively know about education. Rather we should structure it with the questions that motivate people seeking ~~educationalservices~~ of diverse kinds. Tm concerned about my child’s reading. How can I help her?’ ’We want our community center to get better resources to help people learn English. What can we do?’ ’My son hopes to go to college but none of us know anything�about that and his school isn’t helping him much. How can we find out about it?’ The task would be to imagine as many concrete situations as possible and to make explicit the educational questions that arise in those situations and to work out responsible, helpful answers to those questions, presenting them to users of the program in a direct, engaging way, making full use of interactive pictures, graphics, sound, and text.		To bring off such a program, we will need to develop the preeminent database of practical information about education in all its forms and organize it for interactive query with a first-class user-interface for delivery to people on CD-I and ensuing technologies. In designing the database, it would be important not to structure it as an epitome of what experts putatively know about education. Rather we should structure it with the questions that motivate people seeking educational services of diverse kinds. Tm concerned about my child’s reading. How can I help her?’ ’We want our community center to get better resources to help people learn English. What can we do?’ ’My son hopes to go to college but none of us know anything�about that and his school isn’t helping him much. How can we find out about it?’ The task would be to imagine as many concrete situations as possible and to make explicit the educational questions that arise in those situations and to work out responsible, helpful answers to those questions, presenting them to users of the program in a direct, engaging way, making full use of interactive pictures, graphics, sound, and text.

	Once started, a program of this sort would generate resources more than adequate for it to be continually updated, revised, and improved. If a comprehensive, practical source of educational information and advice could be developed, the market for Empower would prove to be be very large in scope and extended over time. As a product, it would exemplify something that can be done with interactive technologies that really can not be done with print because the result would be a horribly unwieldy set of reference books. The project would be doable, but by no means trivial.		Once started, a program of this sort would generate resources more than adequate for it to be continually updated, revised, and improved. If a comprehensive, practical source of educational information and advice could be developed, the market for Empower would prove to be be very large in scope and extended over time. As a product, it would exemplify something that can be done with interactive technologies that really can not be done with print because the result would be a horribly unwieldy set of reference books. The project would be doable, but by no means trivial.

	In structuring the enterprise, the College should clearly be in the position of designer and information provider, ~~benefitting~~ from the project through royalties. To carry the project out, the College should ally with a major corporation, say Time-Life, that would serve the function of publisher and distributor, assuming the costs of production and distribution, receiving the profits after those costs and royalties were defrayed. To start the project up, the College will need to mobilize resources to support design work on the order of $200,000, which it might do with the concept of "venture endowment," operating expense gifts that have a high ~~probabilityof~~ converting into income streams to the College far greater than the originating gifts. In addition, substantial effort would be needed to amass the appropriate content, most of which should probably be provided by the organization serving as publisher and distributor.		In structuring the enterprise, the College should clearly be in the position of designer and information provider, benefiting from the project through royalties. To carry the project out, the College should ally with a major corporation, say Time-Life, that would serve the function of publisher and distributor, assuming the costs of production and distribution, receiving the profits after those costs and royalties were defrayed. To start the project up, the College will need to mobilize resources to support design work on the order of $200,000, which it might do with the concept of "venture endowment," operating expense gifts that have a high probability of converting into income streams to the College far greater than the originating gifts. In addition, substantial effort would be needed to amass the appropriate content, most of which should probably be provided by the organization serving as publisher and distributor.

	I think ILT should take on such a project as a major development goal -- Empower is a feasible educational product and one that will make a difference. Somebody is going to try it, it had best be us, based at a top graduate school of education. There are over 40 millions kids in school, K through 12, a million or two in college, several million teachers, and many, many million parents; there are millions and millions of adults who have learning needs and endless organizations, philanthropic and ~~selfinterested~~, that have a stake in these adults’ being able to meet their learning needs . The compact disc makes it possible to draw together in one unified source most of the information all these people need in order to manage their educational transactions with greater, more humane effect than they currentiy can. An interactive multimedia program that genuinely responded to the educational concerns that people have, that informed those concerns and helped to empower people to act on them, would be a worthy contribution to education and a tremendous asset for the College. Let’s make the creation of it our primary goal. Robbie McClintock		I think ILT should take on such a project as a major development goal — Empower is a feasible educational product and one that will make a difference. Somebody is going to try it, it had best be us, based at a top graduate school of education. There are over 40 millions kids in school, K through 12, a million or two in college, several million teachers, and many, many million parents; there are millions and millions of adults who have learning needs and endless organizations, philanthropic and self-interested, that have a stake in these adults’ being able to meet their learning needs . The compact disc makes it possible to draw together in one unified source most of the information all these people need in order to manage their educational transactions with greater, more humane effect than they currentiy can. An interactive multimedia program that genuinely responded to the educational concerns that people have, that informed those concerns and helped to empower people to act on them, would be a worthy contribution to education and a tremendous asset for the College. Let’s make the creation of it our primary goal. Robbie McClintock

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	I would propose going after resources to develop a two term course: the first concerning Visualization and Thought In Western Culture, 1400-1900, and the second Visualization and Thought In Western Culture, 1900-2000. The course should draw together what is known about visual cognition from psychology and related disciplines; what can be learned about visualization and thinking from the history of science, technology, art, architecture, cartography, and the like; and what is evident about the topic from the creative design work of the 20th century in the visual media.		I would propose going after resources to develop a two term course: the first concerning Visualization and Thought In Western Culture, 1400-1900, and the second Visualization and Thought In Western Culture, 1900-2000. The course should draw together what is known about visual cognition from psychology and related disciplines; what can be learned about visualization and thinking from the history of science, technology, art, architecture, cartography, and the like; and what is evident about the topic from the creative design work of the 20th century in the visual media.
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	Ackermann, 1984		Ackermann, 1984;
	:Robert J. Ackermann. Data, Instruments, and Theory: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.		:Robert J. Ackermann. Data, Instruments, and Theory: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

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	<h3>Electronic Bulletin Board Capacities and Interests</h3>		<h3>Electronic Bulletin Board Capacities and Interests</h3>

	~~<pre>~~To; John Allegrante, Director, Center for Health Promotion		To:
	Bill Baldwin, Associate Dean for Student Services		:John Allegrante, Director, Center for Health Promotion
	John Black, the Literacy Center		:Bill Baldwin, Associate Dean for Student Services
	John Buckey, Director, Placement Office		:John Black, the Literacy Center
	John Fanselow, the TESOL Program		:John Buckey, Director, Placement Office
	Erwin Flaxman, Director, ERIC-CUE		:John Fanselow, the TESOL Program
	Tom Foote, the Inquiry Program		:Erwin Flaxman, Director, ERIC-CUE
	Jane Franck, Director, Milbank Memorial Library		:Tom Foote, the Inquiry Program
	Chuck Harrington, Director, lUME		:Jane Franck, Director, Milbank Memorial Library
	Roland Hence, Director, Admissions Office		:Chuck Harrington, Director, lUME
	Joann Jacullo-Noto, Director, Office of Teacher Education		:Roland Hence, Director, Admissions Office
	Linn Marks, Research Associate, Dean's Office		:Joann Jacullo-Noto, Director, Office of Teacher Education
	Jeffrey McDowell, Coordinator, Student Activities Office		:Linn Marks, Research Associate, Dean's Office
	Jack Meziro, the AEGIS Program		:Jeffrey McDowell, Coordinator, Student Activities Office
	Pat Moccia, Nursing Education		:Jack Meziro, the AEGIS Program
	Rocky Schwarz, Supervisor, Word Processing Center		:Pat Moccia, Nursing Education
	~~</pre>~~		:Rocky Schwarz, Supervisor, Word Processing Center

	From: Robbie McClintock, Director, Box 136, x3734		From: Robbie McClintock, Director, Box 136, x3734
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	Date; February 15,1988		Date; February 15,1988
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	How can technological innovations help improve the College's competitive position? In response to this question, the following reasoning seems to make some sense. The College delivers high-cost instruction, competing with low-cost imitators, in a demographically limited market. We improve our competitive position in three ways: by lowering our costs, by differentiating our programs from those of our imitators, and by expanding the reach of our markets.		How can technological innovations help improve the College's competitive position? In response to this question, the following reasoning seems to make some sense. The College delivers high-cost instruction, competing with low-cost imitators, in a demographically limited market. We improve our competitive position in three ways: by lowering our costs, by differentiating our programs from those of our imitators, and by expanding the reach of our markets.

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	We propose to create an interactive multimedia program designed to help people with the many diverse questions that they have about education, it should have a retail price of about $100 and should run on systems using optical storagethat should start to be widely available around 1990. Within that decade, systems that can run the program will become a standard consumer appliance and we intend that the program will become the standard source of educational information and ideas for the general public.		We propose to create an interactive multimedia program designed to help people with the many diverse questions that they have about education, it should have a retail price of about $100 and should run on systems using optical storagethat should start to be widely available around 1990. Within that decade, systems that can run the program will become a standard consumer appliance and we intend that the program will become the standard source of educational information and ideas for the general public.

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