CiNii Books - Beyond technology : children's learning in the age of digital culture

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it offers a level-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 the media-rich world of childrens lives outside school and their experiences of technology in the classroom. Bridging this divide, he suggests, will require more than superficial attempts to import technology into schools, or to combine education with digital entertainment. While debunking such fantasies of technological change, Buckingham also provides a constructive alternative, arguing that young people need to be equipped with a new form of digital literacy that is both critical and creative. Beyond Technology will be essential reading for all students of the media or education, as well as for teachers and other education professionals.

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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

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