ABSTRACT
Computer-based technologies can be powerful pedagogical tools – not just rich sources of information, but extensions of human capabilities and contexts for social interactions.
(Bransford et al. 2000, p. 218)
The keynote quotation for this chapter presents a vision for the use of ICTs in teaching and learning that we share. It is ten years since Bransford and his colleagues articulated this idea of digital technologies as ‘powerful pedagogical tools’. How near are we today to releasing the potential of new technologies to enhance teaching and learning in different settings and across different subjects?
