Wan Ng

Wan Ng (Ph.D.) is Professor in Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning & Science Education in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her major research interest is in the use of ICT, including Web 2.0 and mobile technologies, in education. Wan has published widely in the areas of science education, gifted education, online learning at both school and tertiary levels and the use of mobile technologies for learning. Wan has co-ordinated several nationally-funded science and technology initiatives and works extensively with primary and secondary science teachers in professional learning courses.

Publications

Empowering Students to be Scientifically Literate through Digital Literacy
Empowering Students to be Scientifically Literate through Digital Literacy
Wan Ng. © 2013. 21 pages.
The objective of this chapter is to discuss the relationships between the three literacies that are mentioned above: digital literacy, science literacy and multiple literacies....
Mobile Technologies and Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning: Research and Pedagogy
Mobile Technologies and Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning: Research and Pedagogy
Wan Ng. © 2011. 362 pages.
Ubiquitous learning is able to situate the learner in both the real and virtual world, regardless of time and place, where questions encountered in the real world can be...
The Digital Revolution in Education: Digital Citizenship and Multi-Literacy of Mobile Technology
The Digital Revolution in Education: Digital Citizenship and Multi-Literacy of Mobile Technology
Ria Hanewald, Wan Ng. © 2011. 14 pages.
This chapter aims to provide an outline of the digital revolution and the way that mobile devices facilitate participation in the Information age. It provides readers with a...
Insights into Students’ Thinking with Handheld Computers
Insights into Students’ Thinking with Handheld Computers
Wan Ng, Howard Nicholas. © 2011. 20 pages.
The handheld computer as a pedagogical tool has the capacity to enable students to demonstrate understanding through different modes of representations, for example, verbal...
Formal and Informal Use of Handhelds by Australian and British Students: A Comparative Case Study
Formal and Informal Use of Handhelds by Australian and British Students: A Comparative Case Study
Wan Ng, Stamatina Anastopoulou. © 2011. 20 pages.
In this chapter, we discuss the capacity of mobile technology in facilitating young people’s ubiquitous learning and socializing, both formally and informally. We report on a...