Beyond Technology
Children's Learning in the Age of Digital Culture
Published on 16. April 2013
224 pages
978-0-7456-7382-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media.
Content
Preface vi
Acknowledgements x
1 Selling Technology Solutions 1
The Marketing of Educational Technology
2 Making Technology Policy 14
ICTs and the New Discourses of Learning
3 Techno-Topias 31
Constructing Childhood, Learning and Technology
4 Waiting for the Revolution 50
The Unfulfilled Promise of Technological Change
5 Digital Childhoods? 75
New Media and Children's Culture
6 Playing to Learn? 99
Rethinking the Educational Potential of Computer Games
7 That's Edutainment 119
Digital Media and Learning in the Home
8 Digital Media Literacies 143
An Alternative Approach to Technology in Education
9 School's Out? 176
The Future of Schooling in the Age of Digital Media
Notes 184
References 186
Index 205
Acknowledgements x
1 Selling Technology Solutions 1
The Marketing of Educational Technology
2 Making Technology Policy 14
ICTs and the New Discourses of Learning
3 Techno-Topias 31
Constructing Childhood, Learning and Technology
4 Waiting for the Revolution 50
The Unfulfilled Promise of Technological Change
5 Digital Childhoods? 75
New Media and Children's Culture
6 Playing to Learn? 99
Rethinking the Educational Potential of Computer Games
7 That's Edutainment 119
Digital Media and Learning in the Home
8 Digital Media Literacies 143
An Alternative Approach to Technology in Education
9 School's Out? 176
The Future of Schooling in the Age of Digital Media
Notes 184
References 186
Index 205
