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“It’s Not a Plug-In Product”

Making Digital Technologies Serve Learning in a School with an Open-Plan Setting

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Abstract

As noted by Jonassen (2014), computer use has evolved over the last thirty years, deeply diversifying how students learn. This resource now functions variously as a learning guide or tutor (as in access to web-based tutorials and information sites), as a communicative tool with self and others for reasoning, inquiring, and creating or disseminating knowledge (as in the programs in computer games, English, science, and mathematics outlined in other chapters in this book), and as an organiser through which students can self-manage, reflect upon, and enact/improve their learning in systematic ways (as in learning dashboards).

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. La Trobe University, Australia

    Vaughan Prain

  2. La Trobe University, Australia

    Peter Cox

  3. La Trobe University, Australia

    Craig Deed

  4. La Trobe University, Australia

    Debra Edwards

  5. La Trobe University, Australia

    Cathleen Farrelly

  6. La Trobe University, Australia

    Mary Keeffe

  7. La Trobe University, Australia

    Valerie Lovejoy

  8. La Trobe University, Australia

    Lucy Mow

  9. Federation University, Australia

    Peter Sellings

  10. University of Tasmania, Australia

    Bruce Waldrip

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Prain, V., Lovejoy, V., Edwards, D. (2015). “It’s Not a Plug-In Product”. In: Prain, V., et al. Personalising Learning in Open-Plan Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-193-9_5

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