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Bird, Jo – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Early childhood settings value play as the way young children learn and educators encourage children's re-enactment of cultural practices in the imaginative play spaces provided. From a cultural-historical perspective, children expect these imaginative play spaces to contain objects from their social contexts, but what happens when technologies…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Play
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Souleles, Nicos – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
There is continuous debate on the role of digital media tools in art and design Higher Education, and in particular their potential contribution towards teaching and learning. The related literature indicates that there is a dichotomy between digital and traditional tools. This study investigates the views of a cohort of art and design students…
Descriptors: Art Education, Design, Handheld Devices, Task Analysis
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Gu, Jia; Churchill, Daniel; Lu, Jie – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Employees' informal learning in the workplace warrants more attention, and such learning could benefit from the latest mobile technologies such as Web 2.0 applications, which have increasingly been utilized and have the potential to enhance learning outcomes. This multiple-case study examined the impact of mobile Web 2.0 applications on…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Web 2.0 Technologies, Handheld Devices, Informal Education
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Turvey, Keith – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This paper captures and characterises the interplay between a group of student teachers' narratives of social network practice and their emergent professional practice with technologies. Teachers on an Initial Teacher Education programme in the UK spent a semester studying a module that synthesised university-based lectures with a professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Student Teachers, Social Networks
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Merchant, Guy – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
Mobile phones have rapidly been absorbed into the fabric of our day-to-day lives. They are now a key consumer item, a symbol of social capital and they connect their users to a mobile web with multiple applications. As ownership and access to smartphones has spread into the teenage years, their place in institutions of formal education has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Influence of Technology, Social Networks