1st Edition

Rethinking Learning in an Age of Digital Fluency Is being digitally tethered a new learning nexus?

By Maggi Savin-Baden Copyright 2015
178 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

"This is a book that I am going to have to own, and will work to find contexts in which to recommend.  It cuts obliquely through so many important domains of evidence and scholarship that it cannot but be a valuable stimulus" -Hamish Macleod, University of Edinburgh  Digital connectivity is a phenomenon of the 21st century and while many have debated its impact on society, few have researched... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 Useful tethering

Chapter 2 The landscape of learning

Chapter 3 Piracy and Pedagogies

Chapter 4 Learning on the move? Liquidity and Meshwork

Chapter 5 Being digitally tethered

Chapter 6 Learning together alone

Chapter 7 Digital fluency

Chapter 8 Tethered Identities?

Chapter 9 Digital Surveillance and Tethered Integrity

Chapter 10 Wizards and brinkmanship

Glossary

References

Biography

Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Education, University of Worcester, UK. She has researched and evaluated staff and student experience of learning in higher education for over 20 years.