Overview
- Editors:
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David Hung
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Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Myint Swe Khine
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Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Introduce new concepts and recent findings
- Address new and current approaches to learning with technology
- Contributions are prominent academics and researchers
- Multiple perspectives
- The content is balanced between theory and practice
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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- David H. Jonassen, Johannes Strobel
Pages 1-27
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- David Hung, Seng Chee Tan, Thiam Seng Koh
Pages 29-48
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- Reinhard Oppermann, Marcus Specht
Pages 69-89
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- Seng Chee Tan, David Hung, Marlene Scardamalia
Pages 91-106
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- John G. Hedberg, Susan Metros
Pages 107-125
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- Minjuan Wang, Myunghee Kang
Pages 225-253
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Back Matter
Pages 275-289
About this book
Gerry Stahl Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA The theme of engaged learning with emerging technology is a timely and important one. This book proclaims the global relevance of the topic and sharpens its focus. I would like to open the book by sketching some of the historical context and dimensions of application, before the chapter authors provide the substance. Engagement with the world - To be human is to be engaged with other people in the world. Yet, there has been a dominant strain of thought, at least in the West, that directs attention primarily to the isolated individual as naked mind. From classical Greece to modern times, engagement in the daily activities of human existence has been denigrated. Plato (340 BC/1941) banished worldly engagement to a realm of shadows, removed from the bright light of ideas, and Descartes (1633/1999) even divorced our minds from our own bodies. It can be suggested that this is a particularly Western tendency, supportive of the emphasis on the individual agent in Christianity and capitalism. But the view of people as originally unengaged has spread around the globe to the point where it is now necessary everywhere to take steps to reinstate engagement through explicit efforts. Perhaps the most systematic effort to rethink the nature of human being in terms of engagement in the world was Heidegger’s (1927/1996). He argued that human existence takes place through our concern with other people and things that are meaningful to us.