Teaching Contemporary Themes in Secondary Education

This book explores the broad contexts and ideas that technology facilitates in our culture and considers what this means for teachers in practice. It aims to help you develop your understanding about, and pedagogy with, technology and includes:
the implications of new media and technology on twenty-first century education;
guidance on choosing and using digital technologies and how these affect the educational opportunities for young people;
a consideration of students' critical and creative thinking with digital media and their confidence and autonomy in digital consumption and production;
references to recent research to support practice;
Links to resources and organisations who can offer support.

Clive McGoun is Senior Lecturer in Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University. His wide-ranging teaching and research interests include digital media communications and the culture and political economy of Web 2.0. Jonathan Savage is Reader in Education and Enterprise Fellow at the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music. He teaches on various PGCE courses and doctoral studies programmes and is an active researcher in a wide range of areas relating to education and ICT.

Introduction; Chapter 1: Making Connections; Chapter 2: Adapting to Radical Change; Chapter 3: Towards Participation; Chapter 4: Choosing and Using Digital Technologies; Chapter 5: Making, Starting and Connecting with Digital Networked Technologies; Chapter 6: The Impact of Digital Network Technologies on Teaching and Learning; Chapter 7: Moving Forwards and Conclusion