Networked technologies and other stories: New paradigms for learning

Abstract

This paper examines the role of networked technologies in transforming education from a teacher-centred, text-book driven and mono-cultural world view within one classroom to learning across national borders, where students become investigators, thinkers and knowledge creators reflecting upon the problems of the world. This papers reports on a research project which linked Canadian students with experts to study diverse cultures of the world. Through the research study, it was discovered that achieving a reflective approach to studying "others" is not merely a matter of breaking classroom walls and making contact, but rather includes changing attitudes and acquiring an ability to approach knowledge in a more constructivist manner. © 2001 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.