Beyond Technology

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Children's Learning in the Age of Digital Culture

By David Buckingham

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Beyond Technology presents a critical examination of the relationship between learning, young people, and digital media. David Buckingham challenges both overly optimistic views on educational transformation through technology and fears about the negative effects on childhood. He highlights a significant gap between children's rich media environments outside school and their limited classroom technology experiences. Arguing for a more meaningful integration, Buckingham calls for a new digital literacy that is both critical and creative, moving beyond superficial tech use and digital entertainment in education.
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Beyond Technology is essential for students of media and education, teachers, education professionals, policymakers, and anyone interested in how digital media and technology affect young people's learning experiences.

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. A leading professor of media and education offers a level headed analysis of the impact of new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research.

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Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people, and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it provides a level-headed analysis of the impact of these new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research.

Buckingham argues that there is now a growing divide between the media-rich world of children's lives outside school and their experiences of technology in the classroom. Bridging this divide, he suggests, will require more than superficial attempts to import technology into schools, or to combine education with digital entertainment. While debunking such fantasies of technological change, Buckingham also offers a constructive alternative, arguing that young people need to be equipped with a new form of digital literacy that is both critical and creative.

Beyond Technology will be essential reading for all students of media or education, as well as for teachers and other education professionals.

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Praised for its clear and sophisticated prose by Children & Society, the book is noted as a thoughtful and engaging cross-national study of the 'digital divide' by Larry Cuban of Stanford University. It is recommended for educators, policymakers, media officials, and parents, offering insightful analysis of the complex interaction between technology, schooling, policy, and young people.

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ISBN: 9780745638805

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 June 2007

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 445g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media.

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