Introduction : challenge of the changing chronotope -- Dialogic : opening a space -- Mediation : from dialectic to dialogic -- Reason : dialogic as a direction -- Creativity : playful reflective dialogue in classrooms -- Teaching thinking : controversies and questions -- Teaching thinking : metaphors and taxonomies -- Teaching thinking with information and communications technology -- Talk around computers : expanding the space of reflection -- Computers supporting dialogue : breaking out of the frame -- Dialogues online : crossing a threshold -- Technology, education and enlightenment
Summary
Discusses about using technology to draw people into the kind of dialogues which take them beyond themselves into learning, thinking and creativity. This book reveals key characteristics of learning dialogues and demonstrates ways in which computers and networks can deepen, enrich and expand such dialogues
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index
