Many educators are looking for new ways to engage students and each other in order to enrich curriculum and the teaching-learning process. We describe an example of how we enacted teaching-learning approaches through the insights of complexity thinking, an approach that supports the emergence of new possibilities for teaching-learning in the classroom and online. Our story begins with an occasi...

In many countries there is evidence of the international educational movement toward more student centred and technology supported teaching as a way to better prepare students for the future. This has been the focus in Vietnam, for example, since the education reform agenda developed in 2000, but the little evidence that there is seems to indicate that teaching remains largely didactic and teac...

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This research project investigated the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in one primary school (R-7). The NSW Quality Teaching Framework was used as a part of professional development activities with teachers to improve their practice. Using activity theory and drawing upon observations and interview data, tensions are identified and described about the uptake and effective use of IWBs acro...

Constructivism is a major intellectual influence on the development of modern learning technology. This paper first reviews the main tenets of the constructivist approach. The application of constructivism to the Information and Computing Sciences (ICS) is then critically discussed. It is argued that constructivism provides a set of ideas that should have a deeper and more widespread impact on ...