When a class of pupils connect between documents that each pupil has written, we are on the road toward the integration of detached packets of information into a coherent and usable whole. If within one classroom each pupil has been required to prepare a biography of a significant individual, those biographies, no matter how well written, remain individual efforts. If, however, hypertext is used as a means of connecting between those individual biographies, those same individual efforts become accessible to the class as a whole. If, for instance, one pupil has written a biography of Einstein, and has tried to explain something about the speed of light, another pupil, who wrote about Thomas Edison may connect between light and the light bulb, while yet another who has written about the track start Jesse Owens may perhaps connect between speed and a list of Owens' world records. Hypertext becomes the means via which the input of each individual pupil becomes a contribution to a wider and more extensive base of common, and usable, knowledge. Too much of the interaction between the pupil and the information to be learned in class ends up as a paper presented to the teacher for a grade. Through the use of hypertext that interaction can become a classroom activity in which the pupils actively seek out the inter-connectedness of seemingly separate components.

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