World Yearbook of Education 2004

SECTION I: Digital transformations 1. Learning: a semiotic view in the context of digital technologies Gunther Kress 2. (Dis)possessing literacy and literature: gourmandising in Gibsonbarlowville Soh-Young Chung, Paul Dowling and Natasha Whiteman 3. Multimedia learning in the digital world Jose L. Rodriguez Illera 4. Rethinking and retooling language and literature teaching Ronald Soetaert, Andre Mottart and Bart Bonamie 5. Children's concepts of information and communication technology: pointers to the impact on education within and beyond the classroom Bridget SomekhSECTION II: Learners and teachers 6. Playing and learning with digital technologies at home and at school Toni Downes 7. Learning and teaching adult basic skills with digital technology: research from the UK Harvey Mellar and Maria Kambouri 8. Teachers and teaching innovations in a connected world Nancy Law 9. Teaching with video cases on the web: lessons learned from the Reading Classroom Explorer Richard E. Ferdig, Laura R. Roehler, Erica C. Boling, Suzanne Knezek, P. David Pearson and Aman Yadav 10. Networking and collective intelligence for teachers and learners Bernard Cornu SECTION III: Intercultural interactions 11. Digital technology to empower indigenous culture and education, Paul Resta, Mark Christal and Loriene Roy 12. Refugee children in a virtual world: intercultural online communication and community, Liesbeth de Block and Julian Sefton-Green 13. The role of local instructors in making global e-learning programmes culturally and pedagogically relevant, Michelle Selinger 14. Case method and intercultural education in the digital age, Marsha Gartland, Robert McNergney, Scott Imig and Marla L. Muntner 15. Intercultural learning through digital media: the development of a transatlantic doctoral student community, Andrew Brown and Niki DavisSECTION IV: Building communities 16. A cross-cultural cadence in E: knowledge building with networked communities across disciplines and cultures, Elsebeth Sorensen and Eugene Takle 17. Telecollaborative communities of practice in education within and beyond Canada, Therese Laferriere, Alain Breuleux and Gaalen Erickson 18. Informatics teacher training in Hungary: building community and capacity with tele-houses, Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo 19. Building communities of practice in 'New' Europe, Christina Preston and Laura Lengel 20. A systemic approach to educational renewal with new technologies: empowering learning communities in Chile, Pedro Hepp, Enrique Hinostroza and Ernesto Laval