Journal Article

What’s used and what’s useful? Exploring digital technology use(s) among taught postgraduate students

LNM has a new paper in Active Learning in Higher Education, titled: "What’s used and what’s useful? Exploring digital technology use(s) among taught postgraduate students". The paper derives from LNM's recent OLT funded project on digital technology use in universities. The paper reports on survey data from students on postgraduate taught courses, exploring how these students engage with during their studies, what these technologies are used for and how useful they are perceived to be.

The frustrations of digital fabrication: an auto/ethnographic exploration of ‘3D Making’ in school

LNM member Selena Nemorin has a new article in the International Journal of Technology and Design Education in which she highlights three key issues that have been marginalised to date in discussions of Making in schools: (1) lack of pragmatic engagement, (2) affective labour of failing; and (3) mediated alienation.

Students’ perceptions of school as a context for digital technology use

Another article from LNM's ARC funded 'Discovery Project' on schools and digital technology has just been published in Educational Studies. The article - titled...

Exploring provocation as a research method in the social sciences

Luci Pangrazio has a new article in International Journal of Social Research Methodology titled 'Exploring provocation as a research method in the social sciences'.

The possibilities and limitations of applying ‘open data’ principles in schools

A new article from an LNM project funded by the Spencer Foundation has just been published in the Cambridge Journal of Education, titled "The possibilities and limitations of applying ‘open data’ principles in schools". The article details the development of open data applications within secondary school settings using critical participatory design methods. The results of this work offer valuable pointers to limitations of school use of digital data - not least in terms of data quality, data literacy and general organizational 'fit'.

Re-contextualising TPACK: exploring teachers’ (non-)use of digital technologies

Michael Phillips has recently has had an article published in Technology,Pedagogy and Education. This work builds on his critical perspective of technological, pedagogical and content...

Special issue on ‘Social Media and Education’

Neil Selwyn is guest editor of a new special issue of Learning, Media and Technology on the theme of 'Social media and education'. The issue contains nine articles from scholars from the UK, US, Australia, South Africa, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden. Topics include Facebook groups, teenage Twitter use, connected learning, self-regulated learning and much more.