ABSTRACT

Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices offers a comprehensive overview of design-based, technology-enhanced approaches to teaching and learning in virtual settings. Today’s digital communications foster new opportunities for sharing culture and knowledge while also prompting concerns over division, disinformation and surveillance. This book uniquely emphasises playful, collaborative experiences and democratic values in a variety of environments—adaptive, augmented, dialogic, game-based and beyond. Graduate students and researchers of educational technology, the learning sciences and interaction design will discover rich theories, interventions, models and approaches for concretising emerging practices and competencies in digital learning spaces.

part 2|62 pages

Inclusive Practices through Digital Technologies

chapter 5|11 pages

Promises and Perils

The Affordances of Technology for Promoting Inclusion of Learners in Educational Settings

part 3|100 pages

Empowering Participation

chapter 13|10 pages

The Transformative Potential of School-based Makerspaces

Novel Designs in Educational Practice

chapter 14|16 pages

Whiteboxing “Bits n bots”

How “Flawed” and Emerging Technologies can Facilitate Computational Play and Learning

chapter |1 pages

Epilogue

Lessons from Inclusive and Empowering Participation in Emerging Technologies