Comments on: decline of text? http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-text/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:27:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Candace Nolan-Grant http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-text/#comment-82 Candace Nolan-Grant Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:57:56 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-text/#comment-82 Yeah, as soon as I said that I thought of Google Search by Image (http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyimage.html), which searches based on a picture rather than words : ) But then I guess the result is either images that look like the one you searched with...or text about it! Yeah, as soon as I said that I thought of Google Search by Image (http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyimage.html), which searches based on a picture rather than words : ) But then I guess the result is either images that look like the one you searched with…or text about it!

]]> By: cmeckenstock http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-text/#comment-80 cmeckenstock Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:13:08 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-text/#comment-80 If I were to use the analogy of a toddler learning language or making sense of the world around her, it seems to me that the naming (or initially pointing to the object) of the object is extremely important step to communication. And going back to the example you have above, at the moment the internet requires us to type in the text to search for an image or sound clip. The technology is still driven by text. What if it does not need text? What if it accepts speech? I wonder if that will then releases the 'text' as the driver? If I were to use the analogy of a toddler learning language or making sense of the world around her, it seems to me that the naming (or initially pointing to the object) of the object is extremely important step to communication.

And going back to the example you have above, at the moment the internet requires us to type in the text to search for an image or sound clip. The technology is still driven by text. What if it does not need text? What if it accepts speech? I wonder if that will then releases the ‘text’ as the driver?

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