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Full-Text Articles in Education
What's In A Name? Why We Can't Learn With Mobile Phones, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
What's In A Name? Why We Can't Learn With Mobile Phones, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
A team from the University of Melbourne is exploring the potential of mobile camera phones to support learning in schools and TAFE colleges. This article discusses some of the findings of the study.
Teachers' New Roles In School-Based Communities Of Practice, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
Teachers' New Roles In School-Based Communities Of Practice, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
School classrooms can be conceptualised as bounded communities of practice made up of teachers and students working together to learn and build knowledge. The widespread use of information and communication technologies enables these communities to create knowledge, cross boundaries and build up intellectual capital. This paper, based on a qualitative study of thirty-two teachers in Victorian state schools, offers a model of four teachers’ roles that reflects the current situation, and suggests ways in which these roles might be developed to enhance knowledge building. It argues that safe, knowledgeable communities within boundaries, together with active boundary-crossing, can provide the conditions …
The Converged Appliance: "I Llove It…But I Hate It", John Murphy, Jesper Kjeldskov, Steve Howard, Graeme Shanks, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
The Converged Appliance: "I Llove It…But I Hate It", John Murphy, Jesper Kjeldskov, Steve Howard, Graeme Shanks, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
The last decade has seen convergence marketed as one response to the challenge of users having to juggle an increasingly wide array of digital services, technologies and media. Key to this view is the assumption that by converging computer devices, and digital media, the value of technology for end users can be maximised whilst the overheads involved in purchasing, maintaining and orchestrating a variety of different technology solutions can be minimised. In contrast however, some authors have argued that convergence creates weak-general solutions, and rather we should be aiming for strong-specific technology by means of the deliberate design of multiple …
Applying A Communities Of Practice Model To Research Partnerships, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, Keryn Mcguinness
Applying A Communities Of Practice Model To Research Partnerships, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, Keryn Mcguinness
Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
The quality and relevance of research is determined by those it affects, not just those who fund it or engage in it. A communities of practice model can bring together these diverse interests to meet national and local needs. Practice, the social production of meaning, is the source of coherence of a community. The specific practice of educational research is building and testing knowledge, and through the learning process necessary for this practice, numerous communities emerge, with complex boundaries and peripheries depending on people’s roles, purposes and expertise. Communication technologies can facilitate communities of practice, so that online dialogue, rather …