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Book Discourse  Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning

Download or read book Discourse Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning written by Rachel Pilkington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse, Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning is invaluable to all those wanting to explore how dialogic processes work and how we facilitate them. Dialogue is an important learning tool and it is by understanding how language affects us and how we use language to encourage, empathise, inquire, argue and persuade that we come closer to understanding processes of change in ourselves and our society. Most researchers in Education will find themselves interpreting some form of data in the form of words; whether these words be explanations, conversations, narrations, reflections, debates or interviews and whether they are conducted through digital media or face-to-face. Discourse, textual or spoken, is therefore central to researching education. Each chapter focuses on the ways in which alternative levels of discourse analysis provide tools for the researcher, enabling insights into the way language works in learning, teaching practice and wider society. Drawing on the author’s own ‘DISCOUNT’ discourse analysis coding scheme and including a wide range of dialogue examples, this book covers: Why Dialogue? The Role of Dialogue in Education. Debate: Learning to Argue and Arguing to Learn Towards Meaning-Making: Inquiry, Narrative and Experience The Role of the Significant Other: Facilitation, Scaffolding and Mediation Inclusion, Collaboration and Community Media, Mode and Digital Literacy Researching Voices and Texts Discourse, Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning will be an essential resource for all students, educators and educational researchers who have an interest in the role of discourse in educational contexts.

Book Digital Discourse

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  • Author : Denise Whitlock
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  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780415990226
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Digital Discourse written by Denise Whitlock and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to promote e-learning excellence, Digital Discourse outlines and illustrates the effectiveness of computer mediated discourse in teaching and technology-enhanced learning courses. It offers a coherent and effective teaching approach through the use of digital discourses. This approach has proven to be successful in raising student participation and reflection in the learning process. Grounded in pedagogical research conducted through The Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University, this book provides evidence of the mediating role of such discourse in the development of thinking and also in the construction of different communities of practice. It includes further examples in the US that show how e-learning environments provide enriched learning opportunities offered by a dialogic approach. Up-to-date and innovative in its approach, this book focuses on the practical and theoretical aspects of digital discourses, including Aesopic Dialogue or the sharing and telling of stories. It further examines a number of recent developments that exhibit innovation in electronic communication that encourage the learning process; the most recent developments in pedagogical communication tools, such as "BuddySpace" and "BuddyFinder" are discussed together with the role of mobile technologies in support of learning dialogues. Digital Discourse is the perfect resource for those interested in understanding the role of discourse in the promotion of reflective teaching and learning and offers: a selection of examples, action points, activities, tools and resources an insightful perspective into the use of social computing tools such as to social computing tools such as Wiki, blogs, YouTube and MySpace practical advice on how to overcome the initial hurdles that can act as barriers in e-learning environments. Practicing lecturers, course leaders, designers, staff developers and students will find this book an invaluable resource. It presents new opportunities for the use of technology enhanced discourse learning and sheds light on the true power of discourse thinking in higher education.

Book Technology Enhanced Learning

Download or read book Technology Enhanced Learning written by Nicolas Balacheff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology-enhanced learning is a timely topic, the importance of which is recognized by educational researchers, practitioners, software designers, and policy makers. This volume presents and discusses current trends and issues in technology-enhanced learning from a European research and development perspective. This multifaceted and multidisciplinary topic is considered from four different viewpoints, each of which constitutes a separate section in the book. The sections include general as well as domain-specific principles of learning that have been found to play a significant role in technology-enhanced environments, ways to shape the environment to optimize learners’ interactions and learning, and specific technologies used by the environment to empower learners. An additional section discusses the work presented in the preceding sections from a computer science perspective and an implementation perspective. This book comes out of the work in Kaleidoscope: a European Network of Excellence in which over 1,000 people from more than 90 institutes across Europe participate. Kaleidoscope brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and cultures, through their collaboration and sharing of scientific outcomes, they are helping move the field of technology-enhanced learning forward.

Book Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue

Download or read book Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue written by Lauren Resnick and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-19 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue focuses on a fast-growing topic in education research. Over the course of 34 chapters, the contributors discuss theories and case studies that shed light on the effects of dialogic participation in and outside the classroom. This rich, interdisciplinary endeavor will appeal to scholars and researchers in education and many related disciplines, including learning and cognitive sciences, educational psychology, instructional science, and linguistics, as well as to teachers curriculum designers, and educational policy makers.

Book Enhancing Learning Through Technology

Download or read book Enhancing Learning Through Technology written by Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book identifies and presents the latest research on theory, practice, and capturing learning designs and best-practices in education"--Provided by publisher.

Book Computer Based Learning Environments and Problem Solving

Download or read book Computer Based Learning Environments and Problem Solving written by Erik De Corte and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most would agree that the acquisition of problem-solving ability is a primary goal of education. The emergence of the new information technologiesin the last ten years has raised high expectations with respect to the possibilities of the computer as an instructional tool for enhancing students' problem-solving skills. This volume is the first to assemble, review, and discuss the theoretical, methodological, and developmental knowledge relating to this topical issue in a multidisciplinary confrontation of highly recommended experts in cognitive science, computer science, educational technology, and instructional psychology. Contributors describe the most recent results and the most advanced methodological approaches relating to the application of the computer for encouraging knowledge construction, stimulating higher-order thinking and problem solving, and creating powerfullearning environments for pursuing those objectives. The computer applications relate to a variety of content domains and age levels.

Book Inspiring Dialogue  Talking to Learn in the English Classroom

Download or read book Inspiring Dialogue Talking to Learn in the English Classroom written by Mary M. Juzwik and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a thorough discussion of the benefits of dialogic curriculum in meeting the objectives of the Common Core State Standards, this book with its companion website is an ideal resource for teacher development. Chapter by chapter, the book follows novice teachers as they build a repertoire of practices for planning, carrying out, and assessing their efforts at dialogic teaching across the secondary English curriculum. The text also includes a section to support dialogic teacher learning communtiies through video study and discourse analysis. Book features include: dialogic tools for step-by-step planning within a lesson, over the course of a unit, or during an entire academic year; a user-friendly layout designed for new teachers who are pressed for time; classroom examples addressing the challenges English teachers may face in stimulating rich learning talk in an era of standardization; and a companion website with additional examples, activities, and course material.

Book Collaborative Learning in a Global World

Download or read book Collaborative Learning in a Global World written by Miri Shonfeld and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century has brought about changes in every aspect of life through ubiquitous technology and Internet-based social media. The distances between cultures and continents have narrowed, the world has become flat, and multicultural work-teams composed of members from different countries have become a daily reality in global businesses. However, in many ways these global changes in work practices have only just begun to have an impact on education. To better prepare students for the information age, researchers and policy makers largely agree about the skills needed for shared knowledge construction. Indeed, the education systems in several different countries have begun to integrate these skills into teaching and learning and are placing a strong emphasis on their implementation (Melamed et al, 2010; Resta et al, 2011). In 2015 the OECD PISA exam for the first time, included assessment of collaborative problem-solving in its country-by-country comparison. Collaborative learning is not a trivial challenge nor is it intuitive for all teachers and learners. One must acquire and practice the essential skills in order to successfully work in a team. Consequently it is essential to train teachers in collaborative teamwork, as they must serve as role models for students. In addition, new tools and practices become available at a rate that outpaces the abilities of many higher education institutions to adopt and implement. This book surveys the current state of the field and provides theoretical guidance and practical examples to help meet the gaps in research, development and practice.

Book ECGBL 2020 14th European Conference on Game Based Learning

Download or read book ECGBL 2020 14th European Conference on Game Based Learning written by Panagiotis Fotaris and published by Academic Conferences limited. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 14th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2020), hosted by The University of Brighton on 24-25 September 2020. The Conference Chair is Panagiotis Fotaris and the Programme Chairs are Dr Katie Piatt and Dr Cate Grundy, all from University of Brighton, UK.

Book The Art of Discussion Based Teaching

Download or read book The Art of Discussion Based Teaching written by John Henning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Discussion-Based Teaching, a singular tool for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers, guides readers through the process of creating ideal conditions for a discussion, anticipating students’ responses, and guiding the direction of a discussion.

Book Visual Pedagogies

Download or read book Visual Pedagogies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases and Practices takes readers on a journey through practico-theoretical experiments in thought, research and practice. Across disciplines, these authors navigate visuality to enhance pedagogical sensibility to how we observe, analyze, criticize and reflect on through visual processes.

Book International Perspectives on the Design of Technology supported Learning Environments

Download or read book International Perspectives on the Design of Technology supported Learning Environments written by Stella Vosniadou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the use of technology for the purposes of improving and enriching traditional instructional practices has received a great deal of attention. However, few works have explicitly examined cognitive, psychological, and educational principles on which technology-supported learning environments are based. This volume attempts to cover the need for a thorough theoretical analysis and discussion of the principles of system design that underlie the construction of technology-enhanced learning environments. It presents examples of technology-supported learning environments that cover a broad range of content domains, from the physical sciences and mathematics to the teaching of language and literacy. The emphasis in this book is not on the design of educational software but on the design of learning environments. A great deal of research on learning and instruction has recently moved out of the laboratory into the design of applications in instructional settings. By designing technology-supported learning environments instructional scientists attempt to better understand the theories and principles that are explicit in their theories of learning. The contributors to this volume examine how factors such as social interaction, the creation of meaningful activities, the use of multiple perspectives, and the construction of concrete representations influence the acquisition of new information and transfer.

Book Electronic Collaborators

Download or read book Electronic Collaborators written by Curtis Jay Bonk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two developments in recent years have converged to dramatically alter most conceptions of the teaching and learning process. First, technology has become increasingly interactive and distributed, such that individual learners have available the means to participate in incredibly complex networks of information, resources, and instruction. As these technological advancements facilitate interaction across classroom, university, and worldwide learning communities in both real-time and delayed formats, various instructional design and implementation problems spring forth. Second, the conventional teacher-centered model wherein knowledge is transmitted from the teacher to the learner is being replaced by social constructivist and learner-centered models of instruction. These new learner-centered models place emphasis on guiding and supporting students as they meaningfully construct their understanding of various cultures and communities. As a consequence of these developments, teachers need guidelines from educational researchers about integrating collaboration and communication tools into their classrooms. This volume presents research on such collaborative technology as it facilitates, augments, and redefines academic learning environments. The studies illustrate how schools, teachers, and students are discovering, employing, and modifying the numerous new computer conferencing and collaborating writing tasks and tools, and their effects on social interaction and resulting student learning. Documentation is given that will help teachers to make decisions that productively transform learning environments. Three key objectives underlie this volume: *to discover some of the electronic collaboration tools and formats currently employed by teachers in schools and universities and to situate these within a five-level taxonomy of computer conferencing and collaborative writing tools and approaches; *to examine some of the sociocultural learning variables embedded in the use of electronic collaborative tools and approaches; and *to participate in a dialogue about the importance of student electronic social interaction and dialogue from a sociocultural perspective. This is a must-read volume for all researchers, scholars, graduate students, and practitioners interested in such fields as sociocultural theory, process writing, cooperative learning, learner-centeredness, distance education, peer conferencing and tutoring, mentoring, electronic collaboration, problem- and project-based learning, collaborative writing, and educational reform.

Book Technology Enhanced Learning for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education

Download or read book Technology Enhanced Learning for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education written by Rafael Ferreira Mello and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book E Learning in the 21st Century

Download or read book E Learning in the 21st Century written by D. Randy Garrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Perspectives on Affect and Learning Technologies

Download or read book New Perspectives on Affect and Learning Technologies written by Rafael A. Calvo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph integrates theoretical perspectives on affect and learning with recent research in affective computing with an emphasis on building new learning technologies. The "new perspectives" come from the intersection of several research themes: -Basic research on emotion, cognition, and motivation applied to learning environments -Pedagogical and motivational strategies that are sensitive to affective and cognitive processes -Multimodal Human Computer Interfaces, with a focus on affect recognition and synthesis -Recent advances in affect-sensitive Intelligent Tutoring Systems -Novel methodologies to investigate affect and learning -Neuroscience research on emotions and learning

Book Critical Learning in Digital Networks

Download or read book Critical Learning in Digital Networks written by Petar Jandrić and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious multidisciplinary volume assembles diverse critical-theory approaches to the current and future states of networked learning. Expert contributors expand upon the existing literature by analyzing the ethical aspects of networked learning and the ongoing need for more open, inclusive, and socially engaged educational practice. Chapters explore in depth evolving concepts of real and virtual, the processes of learning in, against, and beyond the internet, and the role of critical pedagogy in improving social conditions. In all, coverage is both realistic and positive about the potential of digital technologies in higher education as well as social and academic challenges on the horizon. Included among the topics: Counting on use of technology to enhance learning. Decentralized networked learning through online pre-publication. The reality of the online teacher. Moving from urban to virtual spaces and back. The project of a virtual emancipatory pedagogy. Using information technologies in the service of humanity. It is no longer a question of "Can technology enhance learning" it's a given that it does. Critical Learning in Digital Networks offers education researchers, teacher educators, instructional technologists, and instructional designers tools and methods for strengthening this increasingly vital interconnection.