Learning Across Sites: New Tools, Infrastructures and Practices

by Ludvigsen; Sten R.

• ISBN13: 9780415581769
• ISBN10: 0415581761
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-10-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book brings together a diverse range of contributions from leading international researchers, to examine the impacts and roles which evolving digital technologies have on our navigation of education and professional work environments.

Author Biography

Sten Ludvigsen is Professor at InterMedia, University of Oslo. His research interests focus on how digital learning resources are used and how relationships work in distributed settings, both in education and in the workplace. Andreas Lund is Associate Professor at the Department of Teacher Education and School Development, University of Oslo. He has experience of teaching in high schools and his research interests include technology-mediated collective thinking and the pedagogical and technological co-design of learning environments. Ingvill Rasmussen is currently undertaking a post-doctorate position at InterMedia, University of Oslo. Her research interests are learning and change connected to the use of computer technology in educational settings. Roger Slj is Professor of Education and Psychology of Education, University of Gothenburg. His research interests include learning, interaction and development in a sociocultural perspective.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: learning across sites; new tools, infrastructures and practices	p. 1
Developing professional expertise	p. 15
Learning how to know who: professional learning for expansive practice between organizations	p. 17
Co-configurational design of learning instrumentalities: an activity-theoretical perspective	p. 33
Professional learning as epistemic trajectories	p. 53
Cultivating collective expertise within innovative knowledge-practice networks	p. 69
A new artifact in the trade: notes on the arrival of a computer-supported manufacturing system in a technical school	p. 87
Unpacking collaboration and trajectories of participation	p. 103
Intersecting trajectories of participation: temporality and learning	p. 105
Noticing the past to manage the future: on the organization of shared knowing in IT-support practices	p. 122
Design and use of an integrated work and learning system: information seeking as critical function	p. 138
Versions of computer-supported collaborating in higher education	p. 156
Promoting knowledge creation and object-oriented inquiry in university courses	p. 172
Social practices of group cognition in virtual match teams	p. 190
Changing objects in knowledge-creation practices	p. 206
Socio-cognitive tension in collaborative working relations	p. 222
Productive e-feedback in higher education: two models and some critical issues	p. 243
Institutional development	p. 259
Breakdowns between teachers, educators and designers in elaborating new technologies as precursors of change in education to dialogic thinking	p. 261
Researching classroom interactions: a methodology for teachers and researchers	p. 278
Weaving the context of digital literacy	p. 295
Design environments and new tools and representations	p. 311
Using Bakhtin to re-think the teaching of Higher-order thinking for the network society	p. 313
Self-regulation and motivation in computer-supported collaborative learning environments	p. 330
Interactive whiteboards: does new technology transform teaching?	p. 346
Differences that make a difference: contrasting the local enactment of two technologies in a kinematics lab	p. 364
Index	p. 381
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