In 1913 Thomas Edison predicted in the New York Dramatic Mirror that “books will soon be obsolete in the schools. . . . It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed in ten years” (quoted in Saettler, 1990, p. 98). We know now that this did not exactly happen and that, in general, the effect of analog visual media on schooling, including video, has been modest. In a not so different way, computers and