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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.
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1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5 6 7 8 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5111 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 1 2 3 4 45111 World Yearbook of Education 2004 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5 6 7 8 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5111 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 1 2 3 4 45111 World Yearbook of Education 2004 Digital technology, communities and education Edited by Andrew Brown and Niki Davis First published 2004 by RoutledgeFalmer 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeFalmer 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. RoutledgeFalmer is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2004 editors and individual contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-41617-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-43852-3 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0–415–33493–4 (Print Edition) 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5 6 7 8 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5111 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 1 2 3 4 45111 Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Series editors’ introduction Introduction ix xi xiii 1 ANDREW BROWN AND NIKI DAVIS PART I Digital transformations 1 Learning, a semiotic view in the context of digital technologies 13 15 GUNTHER KRESS 2 Networking and collective intelligence for teachers and learners 40 BERNARD CORNU 3 Multimedia learning in the digital world 46 JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ ILLERA 4 Children’s concepts of ICT: pointers to the impact of ICT on education within and beyond the classroom 57 BRIDGET SOMEKH 5 (Dis)possessing literacy and literature: gourmandizing in Gibsonbarlowville 74 SOH-YOUNG CHUNG, PAUL DOWLING AND NATASHA WHITEMAN 6 Rethinking and retooling language and literature teaching RONALD SOETAERT, ANDRE MOTTART AND BART BONAMIE 95 vi Contents PART II Learners and teachers 7 Playing and learning with digital technologies – at home and at school 113 115 TONI DOWNES 8 Learning and teaching adult basic skills with digital technology: research from the UK 131 HARVEY MELLAR AND MARIA KAMBOURI 9 Teachers and teaching innovations in a conn