Transforming through technologies the modalities of learning: New Life Sciences in secondary schooling

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Hedberg, J. & Van Bergen, P. (2008). Transforming through technologies the modalities of learning: New Life Sciences in secondary schooling. In J. Luca & E. Weippl (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 6322-6330). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2008
Vienna, Austria
June 30, 2008
ISBN 1-880094-65-7
  Joseph Luca & Edgar R. Weippl
AACE

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Authors

John Hedberg, Macquarie University, Australia; Penny Van Bergen, University of Sydney, Australia

Abstract

The paper reports on a funded project focussed on disciplinarity and technology in the New Life Sciences (NLS) where the understanding of the discipline is mediated through a number of technologies. These disciplinary and technological innovations have implications for learning particularly in the meta-discipline; the New Life Sciences, where much knowledge is effectively taught only via digital technologies, and represented in symbolic forms other than, or in conjunction with language. This project describes a systematic program of re-theorisation, collaborative trialling, and intervention focused on NLS curriculum and pedagogy to challenge the conventional wisdom that information and communication technologies (ICT) are pivotal to the understanding and conceptual development of the students.

Keywords

• Secondary Education
• Social Sciences
• Educational Technology
• Professional Development
• Information Communication Technologies

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