Digital Culture & Education: Classroom perspectives - Digital Culture & Education - 2 views
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Rhondda Powling on 18 Nov 10In this issue we present articles that push the boundaries of research on digital cultures, teaching, and technologies in fruitful and generative directions. Researchers and practitioners in this issue present case studies and analysis of practical classroom use of copyright literacies, learning management systems, mobile/cell phones, social video, Twitter, and Google Reader. The articles demonstrate how the affordances of digital culture have shifted our understandings of how pupils learn as content can be accessed, designed, and shared. Despite the affordances of digital culture, teaching and learning-with and through digital technologies-requires effective pedagogy. Digital technologies are not 'teacher-proof' tools; they require thoughtful and thorough integration into pedagogy, in a manner that reflects carefully articulated instructional and learning goals