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Exploring Digital Technology in Education : Why Theory Matters and What to Do about It / Michael Hammond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammond, Michael
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Exploring Digital Technology in Education: Why Theory Matters and What to Do about It
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures, tables and cases
- Preface
- 1 What is theory?
- What is the problem with theory?
- How theory appears in different types of research
- Type 1: A conceptualisation of a phenomenon
- Type 2: Creating a typology or system of classification
- Type 3: Providing a conceptual framework or model
- Type 4: Testing a hypothesis in experimental conditions
- Type 5: An experiment with technology
- Type 6: A perspective on what ought to be
- Type 7: An analysis of key theorists and theories
- What is a theoretical contribution and are we making one?
- Summary
- Where to read more
- 2 What is theorising?
- Describing and explaining: how do they differ?
- Basic description
- Interpretative description
- Analytical description
- Narrow explanation
- Wide explanation
- Does theorising require another way of thinking?
- Is theorising making it up?
- 3 Theorising learning with technology
- Behaviourist theories (the mind as a closed box)
- Cognitivism (and the learner as meaning maker)
- Social constructivism (and the inheritance of tools)
- Community of practice and related theories
- Do we need learning theories?
- Theories specific to technology mediation
- Do we need theory in an age of Big Data?
- 4 Teachers and technology: why does take-up seem so difficult?
- Listing the factors: an under-theorised approach
- What do we know about school leadership and school reform?
- Activity theory (a framework on practice)
- Ecological approaches
- Theories compared
- Summary
- Where to read more
- 5 A theory of technology
- What is a technocentric view of technology?
- The idea of an affordance
- We live in hybrid environments
- We participate in assemblages of people and objects
- The social shaping of technology
- Is the important question: 'what ought technology to be?'
- How then should we think about technology?
- 6 Optimism and pessimism when it comes to theorising technology
- Optimistic accounts of technology
- Pessimism about technology
- Further objections to the way we use technology
- Comparing optimistic and pessimistic perspectives
- 7 How can we theorise better?
- What then is theory?
- Developing a research community
- The community will be more theoretically informed
- It will value different kinds of contributions
- It will use the past to understand the present
- It will be critical
- It will be an educational community
- How can we theorise better?
- Planning for theorising
- Ask searching research questions
- Reflect deeply on your theoretical framework
- Don't feel bound by deductive and inductive categories
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Follow the theory back
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 15, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hammond, Michael Exploring Digital Technology in Education
- ISBN:
- 9781447362647
- 1447362640
- Publisher Number:
- 40031822086
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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