Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Part I - Exploring the use of Digital Technologies in School EducationChapter 1 - Digital ethnicity: Social belonging in the internet ageChapter 2 - The use of virtual reality at lower secondary schoolsChapter 3 - Language and electronic medium skills development through autonomous and ideological practices Chapter 4 - Technology enhanced learning of motions based on a clustering approach Chapter 5- Comparing face-to-face to online instruction in secondary education - Findings of a repetitive factoral experimentPart II - Technology Supported STEM School EducationChapter 6 - Coding and computational thinking - using Arduino to acquire problem solving skills Chapter 7 - Learning through a "route planner" Human-computer information retrieval for automatic assessmentChapter 8 - Orchestrating outdoor location-based learning activities Part III- Teachers' Professional DevelopmentChapter 9- Online professional learning communities for developing teachers' digital competences Chapter 10 - Experiences of multimodal teaching through a serious game: meanings, practices and discoursesChapter 11 - The development of teacher leadership inventory in Malaysian educational context
Synopsis
This volume provides a comprehensive and contemporary depiction of the swift evolution of learning technologies and the innovations that derive from their deployment in school education. It comprises cases studies, research focused on emergent technologies and experiments with existing tools in a wide range of scenarios. The studies included in this volume explore the conceptual and practical aspects of technologies that are used to support learning, with a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses all levels of education. The three sections of this volume emphasise the use of digital technologies from the viewpoint of different fields of expertise, explore multiple educational settings where technology was implemented to support the various stages of the learning process, and underline strategies, tools and technologies that play a crucial role in the professional development of teachers.