ABSTRACT

I began this book hoping to move media research in education from its exploratory phase to a phase of disciplined search. But disciplined search must be based on more than just the accumulation of scattered propositions and empirical findings; it requires a relatively coherent, if tentative, network of constructs and relations among them. In this chapter, then, I recapitulate and summarize the major arguments, propositions, and findings that are scattered among the preceding chapters in an attempt to arrive at a somewhat more theoretical view of how media, cognition, and learning are related.