Web effects on learning style?

Web effects on learning style? I'm reading this article: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i04/04b01001.htm I haven't groked it all yet. It reports on research done by Jakob Nielsen on how digital content is read. So far it seems to support some thoughts I've had and opinions I read regarding the use of "computers in the classroom" or in general the effect that web based information is having on cognitive style.

"and other trials by Nielsen amount to an important research project that helps explain one of the great disappointments of education in our time. I mean the huge investment schools have made in technology, and the meager returns such funds have earned.

So does the cognitive style used for interactive entertainment as found on the web translate into a style conducive for education in the classroom? This is important not only for classroom learning of course. As our society moves more toward the web with its social networking and instant news, its instant gratification, a cloud of apps and interrelatedness, will this aid political awareness, for example? Yet, what do we know? I tried and could not read early English prose as found in historical works about my state. Perhaps the coming generations will see our linear, sentence, block paragraphs, as so much drivel; an antiquated, constipated chicken scratching of a dying age. Why not? They will be directly pointing and manipulating virtual worlds in a linked web of zettabyes of data and intelligent entities where agents search and deliver what and when IT is desired. In this world concepts and relationships are visible and high machine IQ agents help you determine their worth. Then, meaning is poetry.