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The challenges of the diverse media landscape when learning about current events in the social studies classroom

The changing media landscape of the Internet has created a diverse environment for learning about global and national current events. Keeping up with the news is difficult and can result in...

| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Educating for ethical know-how: Curriculum in a culture of participation and complicity

Using an infamous case of cyber bullying, Dennis Sumara, Brent Davis, and Tammy Iftody examine how we should teach “ethical know-how” for use in the social spaces of the Internet—a world that...

| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

A beginner's guide to the Internet

For teachers and schools not yet connected to the Internet, here are some signposts to guide you along the information superhighway.

| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Students’ understanding and searching of the Internet

It is estimated that the World Wide Web contains more than 7.8 billion pages. As a consequence, how children understand how to find and use information on the Web is becoming increasingly important....

| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Democracy in early childhood education How information and communication technology contributes to democratic pedagogy and practices

Information and communication technology (ICT) is acknowledged as being a significant part of many people’s lives, and for many young children it forms the backdrop to their lives. Research...

| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article

An equitable curriculum for a digital age

As the tenth anniversaries of The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa approach it is timely to consider how we should prepare the next generation of New...

| Year published: 2016 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Book reviews

Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Sligo, J. (2012). Children of Rogernomics: A neoliberal generation leaves school. Otago University Press. Reviewed by Jennifer Tatebe Kalantzis, M., & Cope,...