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posted on 2006-04-26, 14:12 authored by Gabriel EganIn the 15 years since computers started to appear on English tutors desks, their
most notable effect has been to turn the trickle of paper circulating in
university departments into a flood. Rather than exploiting the computer's power
to turn paper-text into infinitely copyable, full-text searchable e-text, almost
all users filled their rooms with dead trees. Furthermore, new technology has
encouraged tutors to develop online courseware, especially websites and CD-ROMs,
that merely replicate teaching material already available on paper. Only a tiny
minority of such courseware exploits the new media's unique features, and all
'solves' non-existent problems in teaching English....
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EGAN, G., 2005. "'Thou Hast Most Traitorously Corrupted the Youth of the Realm . . . Thou Hast Built a Paper-mill' (Shakespeare 2 Henry 6,) Or, The First Thing we Do is Kill All the Trees." Paper delivered at the conference, English Studies and the Computer, University of Newcastle, 3-4 NovemberPublication date
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