Welcome to the website for Teaching and Digital Technologies.
These resources are available to users of the
book, and require a username and password.
The username is: digital
The password is: the eleventh word in the first paragraph under the
‘Introduction’ heading in Chapter 15 (page 182)
Student resources
Each chapter has a separate page. Resources include descriptions of chapters, critical questions, videos of the chapter authors discussing the chapter, and weblinks mentioned in the chapter.
Chapter 1 Why focus on the big issues and critical questions?
Section 1 Being critical of our assumptions: learners, learning and digital technologies
Chapter 2 Digital natives and other myths
Chapter 3 Learning, teaching, technology: confusing, complicated and contested
Chapter 4 Balancing risks and growth in a digital world
Chapter 5 Digital technologies and equity: gender, digital divide and rurality
Chapter 6 Using digital technologies with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
Section 2 Technological affordances: what’s so special about digital technologies?
Chapter 7 Computational thinking: philosophy and practice
Chapter 8 Creativity, visualisation, collaboration and communication
Chapter 10 Using social media: assumptions, challenges and risks
Chapter 11 Gamification and digital games-based learning
Chapter 12 Mobile learning: what is it and what are its possibilities?
Section 3 Policy: curriculum, values and agendas
Chapter 13 Considering the history of digital technologies in education
Chapter 14 Digital technologies in the curriculum: national and international
Chapter 15 Never believe the hype: questioning digital ‘disruption’ and other big ideas
Section 4 Student learning
Chapter 16 When does technology improve learning?
Chapter 17 Making learning visible through digital forms of assessment
Chapter 18 Learning with digital technologies
Chapter 19 Project-, problem-, and inquiry-based learning
Chapter 20 Numeracy and technology
Chapter 21 Digital literacy in theory, policy and practice: old concerns, new opportunities
Chapter 22 Digital technologies in early childhood education
Section 5 Professional learning
Chapter 23 National and international frameworks for teacher competency
Chapter 24 Teachers: technology, change and resistance
Chapter 25 Digital technology integration
Chapter 26 Ongoing professional learning