LEARNING DESIGN AND INQUIRY IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY CLASSROOMS

• Authors: Kay Carroll
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Global and digital connectivity transform Australian classrooms by creating rich environments for inquiry learning. Developing inquiry learning in this Information Communication Technology (ICT) context is an Australian educational goal. Recently the Australian Curriculum reform and the Digital Education Revolution has become a catalyst for teachers to overcome the ubiquitous disconnect between traditional and digital pedagogies and reconceptualise practice and curricula. The National vision for ICT in School Education (2008) creates opportunities and imperatives for transformative pedagogies to sync with key learning areas and raises questions about how ICT pedagogical disconnect may be overcome. This paper reports findings from multi-site case studies which focus on the bridging the pedagogical disconnect by investigating the ICT experiences and pedagogy of History teachers in K-12 Catholic schools.

Keywords

EN

ICT; IT; pedagogy; history; inquiry; teaching and learning design

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 36-50

Contributors

author

Kay Carroll

• Australian Catholic University Sydney, Australia

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