TITLE

To learn exploring, multimedial systems that build up knowledge

Authors

C. Pontecorvo, D. Cesaroni, P. Romanelli.

Open questions

The use of ipertext aspires to the whole of users or it only remains a discriminant instrument?

Key Words

  • Ipertext
  • Multimedia
  • Interactivity
  • Exploration
  • Link

    Quoted Authors

    Couklin, Landow, Nelson, Calvani, Marchinini, Martini, Salomon.

    ABSTRACT

    Ipertext is an innovative system of apprehendship. It allows a personal apprehendship, ipertextual technologies complies the natural way the subject thinks: Calvani adds that who is going to use ipertexts can choose its own rout, making personal the way of apprehendship, creating not linear association that stimulate a complex cognitive style. An ipertextual document includes links, knots building a more or less complex net of informations and relations. Ecolandia is an ipertext that propose to students of the secondary and high school an activity of studying, a critical reflection and a problem solving: students becomes mayor and they have to solve the same problem of three differents countries: selling off wastes. Ipertext Ecolandia was studied in a sperimental way to see differences it comports if related to the use of paper materials; this is the result: Ipertext adds interest and teamwork of students. Even though advantages an ipertextual use offers, some problems appears: difficulties to understand the general organization and as consequence the possibility to fell lost in so wides informations.