This promotional interactive website by Motorola is a gorgeous demonstration of online learning. It is darn hard to spend more than a few minutes at PEBLpond before you realize you have learned a very great deal about the phone Motorola is attempting to sell to you.
The teaching power here is proof — and a thoroughgoing example — of digital tutoral talents. It’s certainly fair game to use these powers to explain phone models compellingly. What is hard to understand is why so little of this sort of thing is done to explain what we try to teach at school. Why do the digital natives have to use study materials in the classroom that belonged to their grandparents’ generation?
