• the development of radically new
knowledge domains, which include
multimedia literacies and web-based
information systems
• providing access to knowledge
domains that have previously been
inaccessible to the majority of students,
for example, composition in music,
film-making, and 3-D design
• the simplification of complex
knowledge domains through the
speeding-up of normally timeconsuming practices, for example
the study of functions and graphs in
mathematics, or of language change
in linguistics
• the provision of digital tools as
‘scaffolds’ for particular learning aims,
for example, dropdown menus to
scaffold writing in modern foreign
languages
• the creation of distributed on-line
knowledge creation communities,
as exemplified by Wikipedia.