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8 Afterword--Jean Moon and Heidi Schweingruber
Pages 65-68

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... Discussions across the day and a half revealed that young people have great interest in ICT but also that educators are not at all clear about the best way to meaningfully bring it into the process of K­ 12 education. Workshop participants repeatedly stressed that while Being Fluent (National Research Council, 1999)
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From page 66...
... "Generally, individuals routinely leverage their social networks to identify useful knowledge and relevant learning resources as part of their day-to-day dealings," Bell writes. "For those immersed within what could be characterized as an ICT learning community, they may learn about new technological systems and approaches from others in their social network." Vera Michalchik emphasizes the social and cultural dimensions associated with information and communication technology, stressing how difficult it is to separate the technology from the social context of the user (V.
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... Future inquiries into how information and communication technology can become successfully established in formal learning institutions would do well to first explore how high-school-aged youth are engaging with ICT outside school and then to determine the implications for such learning processes inside school. As workshop participants noted, the social dimensions of learning and applying ICT are a critical and frequently overlooked dimension of understanding how ICT fits in high schools or in K­ 12 schools in general.
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