Shift to the Future

New technologies are dramatically changing the face of education and the nature of childhood itself. In Shift to the Future, Nicola Yelland examines the ways in which these technologies are reshaping the social, personal, and educational experiences of childhood, and explores the curricular revisions such changes demand. With a focus on the various information and communications technologies (ICTs) available to young students and the possibilities these ICTs offer for teaching and learning, Shift to the Future provides inspiring examples of teachers who have innovatively incorporated new technologies into their classrooms to engage their students in contemporary times.

Nicola Yelland is Professor of Education in the School of Education at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. She is series editor of Routledge's Changing Images of Early Childhood series.

Chapter One - The Millennials Chapter Two - New Contexts for Learning Chapter Three - Making Meaning: Technology as Play Chapter Four - Thinking and Knowing: Informal Learning at Home and in Communities Chapter Five - New Ways of Learning in School Chapter Six - New Learning in the Third Millennium Chapter Seven - Where Next? Supporting Learning and Understanding Learners in the 21st Century Appendices References