Transformative Approaches to New Technologies and Student Diversity in Futures Oriented Classrooms

Dr Leonie Rowan is a passionately committed educator who  works with the concept of relationship centred pedagogies to disrupt traditional patterns of success and failure in diverse educational and cultural sites. Publishing widely in areas relating to the role of schools in social transformation she has also been a chief investigator on 3 nationally competitive Australia Research Council Grants and in 2010 won a Griffith University for Excellence in University Teaching.Chris Bigum has an international reputation for researching the relationship between computing technologies and schooling and for thinking creatively about the way changing technological contexts challenge us to re-think the purposes of schooling. From the early years of computer use through to the read/write Web, his writings have consistently offered fresh and educationally productive insights.

• List of contributors.- Part 1.- Chapter 1: Educational Futures: technologies, schools, and diverse learners: Leonie Rowan.- Chapter 2: Schools and computers:  tales of a digital romance: Chris Bigum.- Chapter 3: Edges, exponentials & education: disenthralling the digital: Chris Bigum.- Chapter 4: Educated hope, modest ambition and school based equity reforms: possibilities and perspectives for change: Leonie Rowan.- Part 2: Chapter 5: Relationship centred schooling and knowledge producing schools: Carmel McGrath, Leonie Rowan.- Chapter 6: Empowering students as knowledge builders: Jan van Aalstand Carol K.K. Chan.- Chapter 7: Changing spaces, changing places: Helena Gillespie and Rob Walker.- Chapter 8: Teaching & learning: tales from the ampersand: Pam Hook.- Chapter 9 : Making scissors and paper rock: Old world technologies for re-engaging students in mathematics classrooms: Margaret Marshman & Peter Grootenboer.- Chapter 10: Swimming between the flags: The Floating World project: Craig Smith.- Chapter 11: Whose educational futures? Widening the debate: Mary Ulicksak and Keri Facer.- Chapter 12: Feedback clickers in plenary lectures: a new tool for formative assessment?: Rune Krumsvik.- Chapter 13: Imagining futures: Leonie Rowan.- Index: Subject.- Index: Names.

"Bigum and Rowan have put together a star collection of the most innovative researchers' across the world. This will be a 'must have' book for anyone who knows anything about the field." Prof Bridget Somekh Manchester Metropolitan University