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The four panelists or "interactors" will facilitate a dialogue to explore how educators can shape the concept of school and pedagogy so the learning experiences of young people are as interesting as the new media they routinely enjoy in their home...

There is growing interest in the application of computer-based tools to support higher level thinking and meta-cognitive processes to enable organisations and individuals to respond to accelerating social and technological change with practical and...

The reluctance of teachers to employ constructivist methods of learning or use information and communications technologies (ICT) in their teaching practice has become a major impediment to the next generation being well prepared for a more complex...

The symposium explores a collaborative model of instructional design in which participants work in teams to transform hypotheticals or existing internet-based simulations and artefacts into engaging "edutainments". The presenters will each present a ...

This paper offers a cultural-historical explanation for the large gap that has developed between the home and school experiences of young people of multimedia and other technologies. Multimedia developers now face a choice of creating instructional...

This poster reports on the trial of a collaborative research software program that helps learners develop research skills through immersion in the community of practice, not with experts in the field but by engaging with fellow neophytes....