Shift to the Future: Rethinking Learning with New Technologies in Education / Edition 1

by Nicola Yelland

Overview

New technologies are dramatically changing the face of education and the nature of childhood itself. In Shift to the Future, Nicola Yelland examines the ways in which these technologies are reshaping the social, personal, and educational experiences of childhood, and explores the curricular revisions such changes demand. With a focus on the various information and communications technologies (ICTs) available to young students and the possibilities these ICTs offer for teaching and learning, Shift to the Future provides inspiring examples of teachers who have innovatively incorporated new technologies into their classrooms to engage their students in contemporary times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415953184
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2006
Series:	Changing Images of Early Childhood
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
The Millennials     1
New Contexts for Learning     21
Making Meaning: Technology as Play     49
Thinking and Knowing: Informal Learning at Home and in Communities     65
New Ways of Learning in School     87
New Learning in the Third Millennium     121
Where Next? Supporting Learning and Understanding Learners in the Twenty-first Century     135
Appendix 1     175
Appendix 2     177
References     181
Index     189

Editorial Reviews

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

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