The New Generation of e-Learners. Who is thinking of the children?

摘要: Young e-Learners of the 21st Century are currently 4 - 5 years old. They sitting at computers for hours on-end playing games that utilize insidious cognitive learning strategies devised by psychologists involving 'Operant Conditioning'. subtly and subliminally encouraged to believe killing decapitating a small cute flying dragon has nothing do with reality. At 6 age they accessing information through human-computer interaction (HCI) (Preece, 1994), hyper linking virtual cyber space integrating multimedia texts unknown origins find material school project. sit in non-ergonomically designed furniture motionless concentrating on bright colourful screens capture, conquer suppress physical active is required develop growing bodies. Who looking after children future? Do instructional designers consider complex styles human beings? Whose responsibility it design, mass-produce web-based educational system (WBES) actually take into consideration physical, cognitive, social needs new generation e-Learners?