This volume brings together conceptualizations and empirical studies that explore the socio-cultural dimension of new media and its implications on learning in the 21st century classroom. The authors articulate their vision of new-media-enhanced learning at a global level. The high-level concept is then re-examined for different degrees of contextualization and localization, for example how a specific form of new media (e-reader) changes specific activities in different cultures. In addition, studies based in Singapore classrooms provide insights as to how these concepts are being transformed and implemented by a co-constructive effort on the part of researchers, teachers and students. Singapore classrooms offer a unique environment to study the theory-practice nexus in that they are high achieving, implicitly grounded in the eastern cultural values and well-equipped with ICT infrastructure. While these studies are arguably the state-of-the-art exemplars that synergize socio-cultural and technological affordances of the current learning environments, they also serve as improvable ideas for further innovations. The interplay between theory and practice lends support to the reciprocal improvements for both. This book contributes to the continuing debate in the field, and will lead to better learning environments in the 21st century.

This volume brings together conceptualizations and empirical studies that explore the socio-cultural dimension of new media and its implications on learning in the 21st century classroom. The authors articulate their vision of new-media-enhanced learning at a global level. The high-level concept is then re-examined for different degrees of contextualization and localization, for example how a specific form of new media (e-reader) changes specific activities in different cultures. In addition, studies based in Singapore classrooms provide insights as to how these concepts are being transformed and implemented by a co-constructive effort on the part of researchers, teachers and students. Singapore classrooms offer a unique environment to study the theory-practice nexus in that they are high achieving, implicitly grounded in the eastern cultural values and well-equipped with ICT infrastructure. While these studies are arguably the state-of-the-art exemplars that synergize socio-cultural and technological affordances of the current learning environments, they also serve as improvable ideas for further innovations. The interplay between theory and practice lends support to the reciprocal improvements for both. This book contributes to the continuing debate in the field, and will lead to better learning environments in the 21st century.

A long short story and a collection of old and recent writings reflecting his education in the U.S. and England, and his coverage of many events in New York, including some for The New Yorker's Talk of the Town.

Unintended Results: New Chapters in an Ongoing Story contains about 37 pieces of writing and a running commentary that bring the author's story up to date from the printing and distribution of his The Age of Illusion: Some Writings and a Memoir (1999). It presents views on some of the events of these years, including September 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq. The book has many details that have not appeared on the author's Web page, including a fragment, "In the New Payne Whitney Clinic, July 13, 2003"; a short story, "Susan Will Adopt"; and two "poems."

"Willingly Published: More Papers to 2005" is the fourth published volume of Victor Chen's papers, after "The Age of Illusion: Some Writings and a Memoir, Unintended Results: New Chapters in an Ongoing Story, " and "Lines in the Dirt: Some Works of 1978-2004." This volume includes an index of titles of pieces from all four volumes. The volume also includes essays and articles, poems, stories, letters, and court documents, which, like the papers in the other volumes, throw light on history, science, and language. A memory of the 1969 'moon landing," a poem called 'A Brief Ode on an 'Historian' with No Published Books," and an amended complaint against Bellevue Hospital in New York are among the papers in this fourth volume.