Kieron Sheehy - Education and New Technologies: Perils and Promises for Learners

EDUCATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

When should children begin their digital diet? Does the use of new technology hinder or enhance childrens literacy development? Do new technologies give children new abilities or undermine their skills and identities? Are learners safe in modern online educational spaces?

Kieron Sheehy and Andrew Holliman have assembled expert contributors from around the world to discuss these questions and have divided the book into three parts:

early engagement with new technologies: decisions, dangers and data

new technology: supporting all learners or divisive tools

global and cultural reflections on educational technology.

Education and New Technologies focuses on aspects of education where the use of twenty-first-century technologies has been particularly controversial, contemplating the possible educational benefits alongside potential negative impacts on learners. Topics covered include:

e-books and their influence on literacy skills

games-based learning

the impact of new technologies on abilities and disabilities

learning analytics and the use of large-scale learner data

cyberbullying

intelligent technologies and the connected learner.

A twenty-first-century book for twenty-first-century concerns, Education and New Technologies presents up-to-date research and clear, engaging insight about the relationship between technology and how we learn.

Kieron Sheehy is Professor of Education in Innovation Pedagogies in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies, The Open University, UK, specialising in inclusion, pedagogy and new technologies. He is Editor of the Current Debates in Educational Psychology series.

Andrew Holliman is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, UK, specialising in the study of childrens literacy learning. He recently edited The Routledge International Companion to Educational Psychology and is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Research in Reading .

EDUCATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Perils and Promises for Learners

Edited by Kieron Sheehy and Andrew Holliman

First published 2018
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This book is dedicated to Andrews little men (children), Alexander and Leo you make your Mum and Dad so proud every single day.

It is also dedicated to the Craniofacial Support charity Headlines (www.headlines.org.uk) and to the Oxford Craniofacial Unit at John Radcliffe Hospital.

CONTENTS

Kieron Sheehy and Andrew Holliman

Natalia Kucirkova and Jenny Radesky

Mirit Barzillai, Jennifer M. Thomson and Anne Mangen

Duo Liu and Zhengye Xu

Robert Savage, Aishwarya Nair, Miriam McBreen, and Eileen Wood

Peter Zentel

Charlotte Brownlow and Donna-Marie Thompson

Gregor Wolbring

Maggi Savin-Baden

Rebecca Ferguson

Clifford Omodele Fyle

Wayne Holmes

Conor Mc Guckin and Lucie Corcoran

Mirit Barzillai , PhD, is an Associate Researcher at the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa, IL. Her work focuses on reading development and remediation across different media.

Charlotte Brownlow , PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Counselling, The University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research interests focus on understandings of diversity and difference and the impacts that constructions of these have on the crafting of individual identities, particularly for individuals identifying as being on the autism spectrum.

Lucie Corcoran , PhD, is a Psychologist and Researcher based in Dublin, Ireland. Having graduated from University College Dublin with a BA in Psychology, Lucie attained an MA by research on the psychology of bullying and cyberbullying in the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Lucie completed her PhD in Trinity College Dublin, with research focusing on bullying, cyberbullying and cyber aggression, in relation to psychological aspects such as mental health, empathy and coping styles. Lucie has a particular interest in the application of psychology to educational and healthcare settings in order to maximize schoolchildrens educational attainment and health and well-being.

Rebecca Ferguson , PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University. She is an executive member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research, and has taken a leading role in many international learning analytics events, including several associated with her work on the European Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE). Recently, she led the LAEP project, which helped European policy-makers to set out an agenda for the use of learning analytics.

Clifford Omodele Fyle , PhD, is Assistant Professor in Instructional and Learning Technologies, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He has conducted research in the areas of learning styles, instructional design and technology-enhanced education. He also has significant practical experience as an instructional and educational designer for a number of higher educational institutions that include Florida State University, Savannah College of Art and Design and the University of Leicester, and has conducted a number of external evaluations for distance and elearning programmes catering to developing world learners.

Andrew Holliman , PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Coventry University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and holds an MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education from the Institute of Education, University College London. His research focus is the development of childrens reading and the role of speech rhythm (or prosodic) sensitivity in this development. More recently, he has begun to focus on university teaching and learning, and the relationship between motivation, engagement and achievement.

Wayne Holmes , PhD, is a Research Lecturer in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET), The Open University, UK. He has been involved in education, educational technologies and education research for more than 25 years, receiving his PhD in Education (Learning and Technology) from the University of Oxford. His research interests are in the learning sciences, artificial intelligence in education (AIED) and adaptive digital learning environments.