Beyond Technology: Childrens Learning in the Age of Digital Culture
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.
General
Imprint: |
Polity Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2007 |
First published: |
July 2007 |
Authors: |
D Buckingham
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Dimensions: |
238 x 163 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7456-3880-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
General
|
LSN: |
0-7456-3880-5 |
Barcode: |
9780745638805 |
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