Shift to the Future: Rethinking Learning with New Technologies in Education

ISBN-13: 9780415953191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 212 str.

Nicola Yelland

Opis

New technologies are dramatically changing early childhood education in the 21st century, as well as the of face childhood itself. Access to new technologies - in the western world at least-provide young children with a myriad of possible activities and explorations that were not possible even a few years ago. But how can we explain and understand the nature of these differences and explore their implication for education? And how are the broader personal and social experiences of young children affected by these new classroom technologies? Focusing on the range of technologies that are available to children and exploring what they think of them and how they use them, childhood expert Nicola Yelland considers research that illustrates the was in which learning and engagement with ideas is made possible by creative interaction and uses of information and communications technologies (ICT) and the ways in which these technologies have opened up the world so that young people are able to extend the boundaries of their social interaction.

Recenzje

'This lovely little book makes a brave..and successful attempt to consider and assess futures of learning.' - British Journal of Educational Technology

Spis treści

Chapter One – The Millennials Chapter Two – New Contexts for Learning Chapter Three – Making Meaning: Technology as Play Chapter Four – Thinking and Knowing: Informal Learning at Home and in Communities Chapter Five – New Ways of Learning in School Chapter Six – New Learning in the Third Millennium Chapter Seven – Where Next? Supporting Learning and Understanding Learners in the 21st Century Appendices References

O autorze

Nicola Yelland is Professor of Education in the School of Education at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. She is series editor of Routledge's Changing Images of Early Childhood series.