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1.1 What did you find interesting about the article? The most interesting thing about the paper is the new thinkings about human learning activity, and how to create and incorporate various kinds of environment and multimedia supported by computer techniques. The authors point out that the "Gift Wrapping" appoach of using modern technology in education will not change the quality of human learning activity. The real the challenge on this issue, as illustrated by the title of Figure 3 "Rethinking & Reinventing Education", is to think beyond the popular concepts created by Skinner & Taylor to find a catalyst for fundamentally rethinking what education should be in the next century. 1.2 What did you find not interesting about the article? I find every point of arguments in the article interesting. 2 What do you consider the main message of the article? The change of our society into a knowledge and information society will eventually lead to the fundamental changes of human learning activity. The old thinking on this subject is no longer suited for the dramatic changes brought on our society by the development of computer and other technologies in the past decades. The focus is how to use techonologies to transcend the "Gift-Wrapping" Approach into a "Learning and Intelligent Systems" that focus on " making learning a part of life", and how to use new media, new social structures, and new technologies to transform the current education system into a high quality of human learning experience 3.1 Click on one of the words in blue and see what happen? is this feature useful? The action will connect right away to the information related to that word which, author thinks, is important for the reader to better understand the text. The information may be on the files created by the author, or may be on the files of other authors available on the internet. This feature is very helpful for the reader to get access to information quickly whenever he/she are interested to get that information, which is the typical example of "learning on demand" 3.2 In which other situation have you encountered this feature? I have encoutered such experience on regular files created by text-editor, like Microsoft Word, or most often inside the documents on web sites. 4.1 Global learning theories and approaches: do you know any of the people mentioned in the diagrams: Sorry, I am not 4.2 In case you do not know something, find out something about her/his - and write a paragraph what she/he has contributed to deeper understanding of learning. Born in Vienna in 1926, Illich grew up in south-central Europe. He studied natural science, philosophy, theology, and history. During the 1950s he worked as a parish priest among Puerto Ricans in New York City, then served as vice-rector of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. During the 1960s he founded centers for cross- cultural studies, first in Puerto Rico then in Cuernavaca, Mexico. During the 1970s his Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CIDOC) became an internationally respected focus for intellectual discussion. Since the 1980s he has divided his time between Mexico, the United States, and Germany. He currently holds an appointment as Visiting Professor of Philosophy and of Science, Technology, and Society at Penn State. He also teaches at the University of Bremen van Illich became well known in 1970, when he published Deschooling Society which argued that the top-down management of schools makes students powerless - and that the same top-down management is typical of the modern, technological economy that prevents people from learning. Tools for Conviviality made the same criticism of technology generally. Along with Energy and Equity, this book made Ivan Illich one of the most important theorists of the radical ecology movement of the 1970s.
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