Contributions to Technology Education through Funds of Knowledge

Education about and through Technology

This research thesis aimed to deepen understanding about the nature of technology and its possible correspondence to the constructivist notion of learning. Since technology education is a relatively new subject area in general education and still in an emerging phase in various countries, it provided some interesting opportunities to take into account the latest developments in educational psyc...

Opening Up Education Opening Up Education The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge

Technology Education through online virtual environments

Students are engaging with online 3D virtual environments as creative social spaces but Virtual environments such as Second Life also provide opportunities to facilitate technology education in a flexible, connected and creative medium. Using a Second Life environment developed for Griffith University this study explored the use of a Second Life virtual environment to support collaborative desi...

Technology Enhanced Learning Through Mobile Technology in Secondary Education

Digital games seem to be excellent tools for facilitating and supporting situated learning. This unbinding of knowledge from a specific context fosters its transfer to new problems and new domains. Additionally, children’s attitude towards computer games is the very attitude we would like all our learners to have. Therefore, it makes sense to try to merge the content of learning and the motivat...

Contributions to Personalizable Knowledge Integration

Inconsistency and partial information is the norm in knowledge bases used in many real world applications that support, among other things, human decision making processes. In this work we argue that the management of this kind of data needs to be context-sensitive, creating a synergy with the user to build useful, flexible data management systems.