Critical Perspectives On Technology And Education

Description: Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education shows how researchers working in the area of technology and education can use critical perspectives to broaden the "ed-tech" research imagination, opening up new topics, asking new questions, developing theory and articulating an agenda for informed action.

Review: "A timely, useful, readable, subtle, helpful, and provocative collection unpicking the politics, practices, history, and uses of educational technology." - Julian Sefton-Green, Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Contents: 1. Critical Is Something Others (Don't) Do: Mapping The Imaginative Of Educational Technology; Chris Bigum, Scott Bulfin, And Nicola F. Johnson 2. Gorillas In Their Midst: Rethinking Educational Technology; Chris Bigum And Leonie Rowan 3. The Work Of Theory In Ed-Tech Research; Nicola F. Johnson 4. Extending Understandings Of Educational Technology: Teachers' Critiques Of Educational Technology As Important Intellectual Capital For Researchers; Joanne Orlando 5. Digital Play: What Do Early Childhood Teachers See?; Susan Edwards, Joce Nuttall, Ana Mantilla, Elizabeth Wood, And Sue Grieshaber 6. Youth Breaking New 'Ground': Iconicity And Meaning Making In Social Media; Mark Evan Nelson, Stacy Marple, And Glynda Hull 7. The Scripted Sandbox: Children's Gameplay And Ludic Gendering; Nicola Pallitt And Marion Walton 8. The (Mis)Use Of Community Of Practice: Delusion, Confusion And Instrumentalism In Educational Technology Research; Michael Henderson 9. Researching With Heart In Ed-Tech: What Opportunities Does The Socially Indeterminate Character Of Technological Artefacts Open Up For Affirming Emergent And Marginalized Practices?; Julianne Lynch 10 . Teaching The 'Other': Curriculum 'Outcomes' And Digital Technology In The Out-Of-School Lives Of Young People; Glenn Auld And Nicola F. Johnson 11 . Translocalization In Digital Writing, Orders Of Literacies And Schooled Literacy; Dimitrios Koutsogiannis 12. The Lake Highlands One To One Laptop Initiative: NCLB, Drill And Practice And The Formation Of A Relational Network; David Shutkin 13 . The Global And The Local: Taking Account Of Context In The Push For The Technologization Of Education; Rachel Buchanan, Kathryn Holmes, Gregory Preston, And Kylie Shaw 14. Technology And Education - Why It's Crucial To Be Critical; Neil Selwyn



Author Biography: Scott Bulfin is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. His research examines critical approaches to literacy and digital media. Nicola F. Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Arts at Federation University Australia. Her research problematizes so-called "Internet addiction" and critically examines the social phenomena of Internet usage and technological expertise. Chris Bigum is a freelance academic and Adjunct Professor at the Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Australia. He has researched and taught in the field of digital technologies in education since the early 1970's. His current interests focus around the delegation of work to machines.