Beyond Technology

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis oflearning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopianfantasies about the transformation of education and exaggeratedfears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it offers alevel-headed analysis of the impact of these new media on learning,drawing on a wide range of critical research.
Buckingham argues that there is now a growing divide between themedia-rich world of childrens lives outside school and theirexperiences of technology in the classroom. Bridging this divide,he suggests, will require more than superficial attempts to importtechnology into schools, or to combine education with digitalentertainment. While debunking such fantasies of technologicalchange, Buckingham also provides a constructive alternative,arguing that young people need to be equipped with a new form ofdigital literacy that is both critical and creative.
Beyond Technology will be essential reading for allstudents of the media or education, as well as for teachers andother education professionals.