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From: Michael Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 21:00:32 +0000
Subject: Digital Education
To: Michael Thomas <[log in to unmask]>

Apologies for cross-posting


	
Digital Education
Opportunities for Social Collaboration
Digital Education and Learning

Edited By Michael Thomas

"This volume is at once a wake-up call to 21st-century educators and an intriguing  
glimpse at possible futures for teaching and learning with digital technologies."  
-Kenneth Reeder, Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, the  
University of British Columbia

"Digital Education introduces a healthy corrective to exaggerated techno-optimism  
or techno-pessimism. The thought-provoking edited collection represents one of  
the first serious attempts to examine how Web 2.0 may not only improve but also  
help transform education. Contributors to the book bring a wide range of social  
theory to the task ... And they apply this theory to examining incipient efforts  
to deploy Web 2.0 tools in a broad range of formal educational settings, especially  
at the tertiary and adult level. Chapters from and about Australia, Canada, Germany,  
Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, the UK, the US, and Venezuela result in a diverse  
international discussion that is not common in educational research, and this  
breadth helps us to better understand the relationship of theory to practice.  
..." -Professor Mark Warschauer, University of California, Irvine

Thomas has assembled a timely collection of content-based chapters and case studies  
examining the pedagogical potential and realities of digital literacies in a wide  
range of disciplinary contexts across the educational spectrum. The book aims  
to examine a number of foundational aspects of Web 2.0 technologies and social  
media applications and to understand the implications for teaching, learning,  
and professional development.  This work provides a valuable resource for teacher  
trainers, academic researchers, administrators, and students interested in interdisciplinary  
studies of education and learning technologies from around the world.

Michael Thomas is Director of the MA TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of  
Other Languages) in e-learning and lectures in language learning technologies  
and digital business communication at the University of Central Lancashire, U.K.  
He has previously taught at universities in the U.K., Germany, and Japan. Among  
his publications are Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Second Language Learning  
(2009); Interactive Whiteboards for Education: Theory, Research, and Practice  
(2010); Task-Based Language Learning & Teaching with Technology (2010); Deconstructing  
Digital Natives (2011); and Online Learning (2011). He has guest edited special  
editions of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) and the  
International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society (IJETS).



ISBN:  0-230-11158-0 || $90.00 HC || March 1, 2011

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