A real revolution is taking place in the way in which we conceptualise and practise education and learning. This book sets out to explore the immense impact which digital technology is having on education around the world and the ways in which it is used by a wide range of individuals and communities.Contributors analyse changes in technology such as e-mail, the Internet, digital video and other media, but also the effect of this new technology on the way people live and learn around the world.Cultural changes taking place range from the blurring of boundaries between formal and informal learning to the development of new 'virtual communities' which revolve around particular social or cultural interests, and which serve as a crucial tool and source of identity for spatially displaced communities such as refugees.Digital technology is changing the way we all live, and this book is an authoritative study of these changes in all their diversity.
Author(s): Andrew Brown
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 336
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 12
Series editors' introduction......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Digital transformations......Page 28
Learning, a semiotic view in the context of digital technologies......Page 30
Networking and collective intelligence for teachers and learners......Page 55
Multimedia learning in the digital world......Page 61
Children's concepts of ICT: pointers to the impact of ICT on education within and beyond the classroom......Page 72
(Dis)possessing literacy and literature: gourmandizing in Gibsonbarlowville......Page 89
Rethinking and retooling language and literature teaching......Page 110
Learners and teachers......Page 128
Playing and learning with digital technologies at home and at school......Page 130
Learning and teaching adult basic skills with digital technology: research from the UK......Page 146
Teachers and teaching innovations in a connected world......Page 160
Teaching with video cases on the Web: lessons learned from the Reading Classroom Explorer......Page 179
Intercultural interactions......Page 192
Digital technology to empower indigenous culture and education......Page 194
Refugee children in a virtual world: intercultural online communication and community......Page 211
The role of local instructors in making global e-learning programmes culturally and pedagogically relevant......Page 226
Case method and intercultural education in the digital age......Page 240
Intercultural learning through digital media: the development of a transatlantic doctoral student community......Page 249
Building communities......Page 264
A cross-cultural cadence in E: knowledge building with networked communities across disciplines and cultures......Page 266
Telecollaborative communities of practice in education within and beyond Canada......Page 279
Informatics teacher training in Hungary: building community and capacity with tele-houses......Page 292
Building communities of practice in 'New' Europe......Page 304
A systemic approach to educational renewal with new technologies: empowering learning communities in Chile......Page 314
Index......Page 327
