Machine generated contents note: One.An unfolding story -- Introduction -- A personal history -- A developing divide -- A digital revolution? -- This book -- Two.Expanding the possible: people and technologies -- Introducing the digital -- People and designed objects -- A brief history of digital technologies and education -- Institutional factors that influence how digital technologies are used in schools -- Transforming learning: expanding the possible -- Capabilities, education and social justice -- Concluding remarks -- Three.Knowledge worlds: boundaries and barriers -- Introduction -- Knowledge and skills in the 21st century -- Competing ideologies in the curriculum -- Powerful knowledge: an example from mathematics education -- Curriculum and social justice -- Concluding remarks -- Four.Ways of knowing: everyday and academic knowledge -- School and home -- Learning computer programming at home: the case of Alistair -- Science simulations and out-of-school game-playing -- Everyday and academic concepts -- Vygotsky and sociocultural theory -- Concluding remarks -- Five.Schools as spaces for creating knowledge -- A brief history -- Schools as institutions -- Personalisation and education -- Three scenarios for future schools -- Concluding remarks -- Six.Assessment and the curriculum in a digital age -- Introduction -- Accountability and challenging low expectations -- High-stakes assessment and what is valued in the curriculum -- Teaching, feedback and evidence -- Rethinking the digital in assessment -- Concluding remarks -- Seven.Education in the 21st century -- The purpose of education -- Theory as a way of seeing -- Knowledge and pedagogy -- Knowledge in a digital age -- Agency and responsibility -- Teachers and teaching -- Teachers as professionals -- Eight.The idea of justice in education -- Introduction -- Capabilities and the `opportunities to become' -- Cooperation between schools and between students -- Cooperation, professional development and leadership -- Schooling and social justice -- Endnote: on the pleasure of making and writing.
