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Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues
Highlight the role of the new tools in education, in relation to what is understood as learning in schools. The concept is also a kind of futuristic vision, is based on three affordances; 1) the capacity for information storage and retrieval, 2) agents, 3) and the possibilities of communication via Internet (Anderson & Whitelock, 2004).
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Learning and Meaning Making in the Virtual Space
Staffan Selander (Stockholm Institute of Education, Sweden) and Anna Åkerfeldt (Stockholm Institute of Education, Sweden)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-970-0.ch023
Abstract
School pedagogy is being questioned. Increasing migration as well as increasing access to information and new patterns of communication are challenging traditional school work and school curricula. Teachers’ and students’ positions as didactic agents seem to be changing. The individualized curriculum puts new demands on schools. Teachers not only function as subject experts but also as individual “coaches” or “mentors”. To a greater degree than ever before students are obliged to understand their own learning paths and develop strategies for their school work. A new perspective on learning is needed to capture these changes in learning in institutional settings. Our aim is to outline a new perspective on designs for learning.
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