ABSTRACT
The computer is going through initial phase. It is being used as a new box in which to bury old media. Indeed, many would argue that information overload is the major problem of our post-industrial, information-based society. To use the computer like this is like throwing water to a drowning man. Imagine a stack of cards representing all the paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Imagine a stack of cards which contain all personal notes and images, favorite quotes and anecdotes, sources and resources, the books people have read and the papers people have written, the lectures people have heard and the speeches people have delivered. Machines are simply means to desirable and feasible ends of persons. The appropriate role of technology in education can be understood only within the larger context of the purpose of education. Traditional education confines itself to the first and second generations of media— talk-and-chalk.
