ABSTRACT
This chapter occupies an ambiguous position in relation to many of the chapters in this book. While it is concerned with exploring learning with digital technologies, it comes at this question not from a focus on the school but via an investigation of children and young people’s use of computers and the Internet in the home. As such, it occupies something of the same position in relation to the rest of the book as ‘informal learning’ often does to the school – its relevance needs to be made visible and articulated clearly for fear of simply being overlooked. We began this process by arguing in Chapter 7 that the idea of ‘assemblage’ enables us to view learning as located in multiple sites and made up of multiple elements, not simply schools. This chapter pursues this idea through a more systematic exploration of the articulation of these elements and sites.
