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Transforming Learning with ICT: Making IT Happen
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Suitable for a course in Educational Technologies for Education students.
This new book focuses on transforming learning and teaching with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by assisting future and practising teachers to make IT happen! The book, while drawing on international research and reviewing international developments in ICT, takes a strong contextual approach to Australian and New Zealand ICT initiatives.

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• Case studies provide summaries of current ICT initiatives and also provide the reader with research probes reflecting the theme of the book.
• Make IT Happen sections encourage the reader to reflect on the pedagogical implications of the research and ideas presented for their situated practice.
• Review and Research Questions encourage the reader to engage with and reflect upon comprehensive understandings from the ICT research. These questions prompt students to formulate and articulate defensible arguments in relation to their own use of ICT.
• The In Conversation vignettes capture interesting insights from a variety of educators who have successfully utilised and promoted ICT in their various education roles.
• At the conclusion of each chapter, a section called FYI Web destinations for further research enable the reader to explore the material discussed in greater depth.

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Preface
Chapter One: Understanding contexts: what are the key questions and the key themes relating to ICT?
Chapter Two: ICT trends and challenges: what’s currently happening with ICT?
Chapter Three: Transforming learning and teaching: what does 21st-Century learning and teaching look like?
Chapter Four: ICT planning issues and ideas: how do teachers plan for ICT integration and for transforming learning with ICT?
Chapter Five: Implementing learning with ICT: how do teachers make IT happen?
Chapter Six: Assessment and reporting with ICT: how do teachers know what students have learned?
Chapter Seven: Evaluating ICT use in schools: how do teachers, schools and education systems evaluate ICT use?
Chapter Eight: Looking ahead…the journey continues: how can we respond to and shape the future?
Glossary
Index

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Dr Glenn Finger is Deputy Director of the Centre for Learning Research and Senior Lecturer in ICT and Technology Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies, Faculty of Education, Griffith University (Gold Coast campus), Queensland, Australia.
Dr Glenn Russell is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Victoria, Australia.
Dr Romina Jamieson-Proctor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Studies in the Faculty of Education and a Program Leader in the Centre for Learning Research (CLR) at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
Associate Professor Neil Russell from the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

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