World Yearbook of Education 2004: Digital Technologies, Communities and Education (World Yearbook of Education)

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. Learning, A Semiotic View In The Context Of Digital Technologies / Gunther Kress -- Networking And Collective Intelligence For Teachers And Learners / Bernard Cornu -- Multimedia Learning In The Digital World / José L. Rodríguez Illera -- Children's Concepts Of Ict: Pointers To The Impact Of Ict On Education Within And Beyond The Classroom / Bridget Somekh -- (dis)possessing Literacy And Literature: Gourmandizing In Gibsonbarlowville / Soh-young Chung, Paul Dowling And Natasha Whiteman -- Rethinking And Retooling Language And Literature Teaching / Ronald Soetaert, Andre Mottart And Bart Bonamie -- Playing And Learning With Digital Technologies - At Home And At School / Toni Downes -- Learning And Teaching Adult Basic Skills With Digital Technology: Research From The Uk / Harvey Mellar And Maria Kambouri -- Teachers And Teaching Innovations In A Connected World / Nancy Law -- Teaching With Video Cases On The Web: Lessons Learned From The Reading Classroom Explorer / Richard E. Ferdig ... [et Al.] -- Digital Technology To Empower Indigenous Culture And Education / Paul Resta, Mark Christal And Loriene Roy -- Refugee Children In A Virtual World: Intercultural Online Communication And Community / Liesbeth De Block And Julian Sefton-green -- The Role Of Local Instructors In Making Global E-learning Programmes Culturally And Pedagogically Relevant / Michelle Selinger -- Case Method And Intercultural Education In The Digital Age / Marsha A. Gartland ... [et Al.] -- Intercultural Learning Through Digital Media: The Development Of A Transatlantic Doctoral Student Community / Andrew Brown And Niki Davis -- A Cross-cultural Cadence In E: Knowledge Building With Networked Communities Across Disciplines And Cultures / Elsebeth K. Sorensen And Eugene S. Takle -- Telecollaborative Communities Of Practice In Education Within And Beyond Canada / Thérèse Laferrière, Alain Breuleux And Gaalen Erickson -- Informatics Teacher Training In Hungary: Building Community And Capacity With Tele-houses / Márta Turcsányi-szabó -- Building Communities Of Practice In 'new' Europe / Christina Preston And Laura Lengel -- A Systemic Approach To Educational Renewal With New Technologies: Empowering Learning Communities In Chile / Pedro Hepp, J. Enrique Hinostroza And Ernesto Laval. Edited By Andrew Brown And Niki Davis. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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