Stephen Downes on the potential for MobIle Educational Technology and Hyper Media. When a person can read and write to the internet from any place at all, what does learning look like? It seems to me clear, this: very much not like a Class Room. Because there's no real upside to creating an artificial environment when we could leverage the properties of existing real environments. Instead of requiring a forestry student to attend a class, we would require a forestry student to login from a forest. "Call us when we can see some pine trees, Peter."

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