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This paper examines the role of networked technologies in transforming education from a teacher-centred, text-book driven and mono-cultural world view within one classroom to learning across national borders, where students become investigators, thinkers and knowledge creators reflecting upon the problems of the world. This papers reports on a research project which linked Canadian students with experts to study diverse cultures of the world. Through the research study, it was discovered that achieving a reflective approach to studying “others” is not merely a matter of breaking classroom walls and making contact, but rather includes changing attitudes and acquiring an ability to approach knowledge in a more constructivist manner.
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Kassam, A. (2001). Networked technologies and other stories: New paradigms for learning. In: Taylor, H., Hogenbirk, P. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Education. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 58. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35403-3_18
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