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Re:Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek by picklefish on Thursday December 20, 2012 @04:53PM (#4950293)
What if the future of grade school textbooks was this. Learning would be fascinating. What a great design.
Re:Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek by _delirium on Thursday December 20, 2012 @05:22PM (#4950439)
I remember a lot of multimedia learning materials in the late '80s and 1990s. Some were good, some weren't, but I don't feel they really improved my education much. The only ones that really stuck with me were more simulation-type ones, not as much these multimedia-text ones. I do recall learning a lot about oil drilling from an oil-drilling simulation game.
Re:Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek by thwest on Thursday December 20, 2012 @05:52PM (#4950548)
Encarta 95 was really great. Really set the tone for my decade later wikipedia browsing habit.
Re:Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek by davidw on Thursday December 20, 2012 @05:06PM (#4950358)
> Learning would be fascinating.

I thought it was already, for many subjects.

Re:Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek by lmm on Friday December 21, 2012 @05:38AM (#4952210)
It is, but somehow schools still manage to make it not so.
Re:Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek by pjmo on Thursday December 20, 2012 @04:59PM (#4950324)
That is a great point. It would almost be fun to learn in this type of way.