Beyond Technology: Children's Learning in the Age of Digital Culture

Preface vi

Acknowledgements x

1 Selling Technology Solutions 1
The Marketing of Educational Technology

2 Making Technology Policy 14
ICTs and the New Discourses of Learning

3 Techno-Topias 31
Constructing Childhood, Learning and Technology

4 Waiting for the Revolution 50
The Unfulfilled Promise of Technological Change

5 Digital Childhoods? 75
New Media and Children’s Culture

6 Playing to Learn? 99
Rethinking the Educational Potential of Computer Games

7 That's Edutainment 119
Digital Media and Learning in the Home

8 Digital Media Literacies 143
An Alternative Approach to Technology in Education

9 School's Out? 176
The Future of Schooling in the Age of Digital Media

Notes 184

References 186

Index 205