It also gives enhanced access to full texts online as well as allowing interaction between students and staff.
Of greater concern is that the increasing use of technology may reduce socialization among students and interaction between students and teachers, and between children and their parents.
He has made a start by hiring some joint faculty and encouraging interaction between students at the two schools.
A lecture, for example, could involve contact with a member of staff instructing a large group of students, while a seminar or tutorial may allow closer interaction between students and a lecturer.
"The focus is on technology, the classes are 88 minutes long, and there's more interaction between students and teachers," said Michael, 17, who lives in Stamford and is now a senior.
I am also waiting for the school to explain how it will handle the interaction between students and Creapolis's corporate tenants.
("Such potential for conflicts is quite manageable with the appropriate procedures in place, enabling this very effective interaction between students, faculty, and companies," Huttenlocher told me).
"Good education is always going to involve intense engagement and interaction between students and faculty, and it would be a mistake to think new media would make that less important".
The school is small and intimate, with plenty of interaction between students and teachers; the dining hall is first rate; and a statue of Herman Melville, the college's most famous visitor, stares out over the landlocked sea.
Elected officials were enlisted, and, this week, Raymond J. Dearie, chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, promised to try to limit interaction between students and the probation office, but said the cohabitation would likely continue.
Judge Dearie suggested that officials could minimize the interaction between students and probationers by getting the adults to use a back door; sending probationers directly to the 16th floor and using the ground-floor space only for administration; having probationers in the building only in the evenings, after school is out; or sending sex offenders to an old courthouse.
