Re-Designing Learning Contexts: Technology-Rich, Learner-Centred Ecologies

ISBN-13: 9780415554411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 198 str.

Rosemary Luckin

Opis

Learning, Context and the Role of Technology seeks to re-dress the lack of attention that technology developers and enthusiasts pay to a learner’s wider context and proposes a model to help educators and technologists develop more productive learning contexts. It offers a definition of context as a set of inter-related resource elements, including people and objects, and focuses in particular on the intersection between learning, context and technology. Context is framed not as something which is tied to a physical or virtual location, but rather as something that belongs to an individual and is created through their interactions in the world. The book explores:

• the basic types of technology and what they have to offer
• the Learner-Centric ‘Ecology of Resources’ model of context as a framework for designing and evaluating technology enhanced learning
• the impact of recent technological developments, including the world wide web, artificial intelligence and Computer Science as new tools for communication
• the importance of matching available resources to each learner’s particular needs
• the ways in which the learner’s environment and the technologies available might change over the coming years

This interdisciplinary study investigates the dynamics and potential of teacher-learner interaction within a learning continuum across a variety of contexts. It will be of interest to those teaching, researching and thinking about the use of technology in learning and pedagogy, as well as those involved in developing technology for education and those who use it in their own teaching.

Spis treści

Part One: Background  1. Contexts for Learning 2. Learners and Learning  3. The Role of Technology  Part Two: The Ecology of Resources Model and Design Framework  4. Software Design and the Zone of Proximal Adjustment  5. Modelling a Learner's Context  6. The Ecology of Resources Method: Models and Participatory Design  7. The Ecology of Resources Design Framework  Part Three: The Future of Technology Rich Learning  8. New Technologies, New Interactions?  9. New Interactions, New Opportunities for Learning

O autorze

Rosemary Luckin is Professor of Learner-Centred Design at the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She has graduate and postgraduate qualifications in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science and has taught learners in schools, colleges and universities.