Technologies, implementations and applications for the Kleistian development of thoughts in speech

Abstract

Innovations in the fields of consumer electronics and media technologies are pervading the daily life and invading the private home. There emerge novel communication opportunities. Educational processes such as university studies, for illustration, are unconventionally expanded towards a casual home office. Web browsers and networking technologies provide access to serious content and direct manipulation technologies allow for some transformation of conventional studies into edutainment. Among the novel features is the opportunity for the learner to casually deal with learning content and to informally present his own work to friends and relatives at home in this way supporting the gradual development of thought in speech, as Kleist put it. Consumer electronics and media technology have set the stage for Kleistian learning demonstrated technically and didactically.