Technology-supported learning innovation in cultural contexts

Designing technology enhanced learning contexts

Through iterative participatory design-based research I aim to explore the application of the Ecology of Resources (EoR) Framework (Luckin, 2008) to the design of technology enhanced contexts that scaffold learning and collaboration. Technology enhanced learning (TEL) contexts engage learners and the ecology of resources available to them as they move through time and space, in coordinated and ...

Cultural Considerations in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning

This paper reports on a theory-based empirical investigation of cultural considerations in the appropriation of affordances and on the development of technological intersubjectivity in a computer supported collaborative learning environment. Socio-technical affordances are “action-taking possibilities” and “meaning-making opportunities” in a sociotechnical system relative to the capabilities of...

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Technology Supported Learning - Minitrack Introduction

The Internet era of computing is creating new opportunities for new forms of distributed learning and course support than ever before. In order to more effectively leverage this growing potential, continued research on the topic of Technology Supported Learning is essential. The Technology Supported Learning minitrack strives to encourage papers from a variety of perspectives such as different ...

Technology-Supported Cooperative Learning in Secondary Education

Afier watching the results from electronic meeting systems (EMS) use in the business arena, educators are beginning to look at EMS as a tool for group learning. Many of the initial educational uses of EMS have been ,focused at the university level, and only a few school systems have put the technology to use in the public schools. The University of Arizona’s GroupSystems was installed at a loca...