Learning, Media and Technology
2012 Volume 37, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 6
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Unravelling the Social Network: Theory and Research
Guy Merchant
Despite the widespread popularity of social networking sites (SNSs) amongst children and young people in compulsory education, relatively little scholarly work has explored the fundamental issues... More
pp. 4-19
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Dividing at an Early Age: The Hidden Digital Divide in Ohio Elementary Schools
Lawrence Wood & Aimee Howley
Computers are now a ubiquitous part of US elementary school education. With policy reports suggesting that inequities in information and communication technology (ICT) access across US schools are ... More
pp. 20-39
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What Counts as Knowledge: Learning to Use Categories in Computer Environments
Sten R. Ludvigsen
In this article, I develop a perspective on learning as multilayered phenomena. I take a socio-genetic approach in order to understand human activity and to show how categories are a fundamental... More
pp. 40-52
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Gender Differences in Student Performance in Large Lecture Classrooms Using Personal Response Systems ("Clickers") with Narrative Case Studies
Hosun Kang, Mary Lundeberg, Bjorn Wolter, Robert delMas & Clyde F. Herreid
This study investigated gender differences in science learning between two pedagogical approaches: traditional lecture and narrative case studies using personal response systems ("clickers").... More
pp. 53-76
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Children's Writing Goes 3D: A Case Study of One Primary School's Journey into Multimodal Authoring
Angela Thomas
This paper draws from research conducted as part of an Australian Research Council funded Linkage Project "Teaching effective 3D authoring in the middle years: multimedia grammatical design and... More
pp. 77-93
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"Wrighting" the Self: New Technologies and Textual Subjectivities
Mona Sakr
The expression of the self through multimodal texts is a central theme in education. While it has been suggested that new technologies act as important mediators in the relationship between texts... More
pp. 119-123