School of Tomorrow: Teaching and Technology in Local and Global Communities - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3039102737 ISBN 13: 9783039102730

Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang, 2005

Synopsis

This volume provides a description and analysis of findings from a European Commission research and development project: The Fifth Dimension - Local Learning Communities in a Global World, funded within the framework Information, Society, and Technology (IST), School of Tomorrow. The contributors take as a point of departure that the school of tomorrow, the school in the information society, has two significant features. One is the expanded use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The other is the development of partnerships. The cases described here are based on the work of three European university teams from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden; the University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University in Denmark, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain, that developed collaborations jointly to create new technology-based tools and learning environments that expanded beyond school walls. Using the Fifth Dimension approach to building learning environments, this network of university researchers worked together with teachers and software developers to co-design tools, strategies, and materials for teaching and learning in the school of tomorrow. The volume addresses both the challenges and the possibilities of integrating technology in schools and classrooms that are partners in local and global learning communities.

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About the Author

The Editors: Monica Nilsson has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Helsinki. She is Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Learning at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden and her research area is new communicative and learning practices enabled by information and communication technology.
Honorine Nocon has a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego, UCSD. She is Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center and her research areas are language/culture acquisition and collaboration in diversity.
Monica Nilsson and Honorine Nocon are Affiliate Scholars of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, UCSD.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3039102737
• ISBN 13: 9783039102730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Nocon Honorine, Nilsson Monica