Handbook of Design in Educational Technology

14 Putting the Ecology of Resources Design Framework to Use with Language Learners' Contexts

Rosemary Luckin, Wilma Clark, and Joshua Underwood

1 Introduction

Modern technology developments present educational practitioners and designers with an exciting array of potential learning benefits and a diverse collection of challenges that need to be addressed if these benefits are to become reality. One of these challenges concerns how best to take into account a learner’s context, so that the technologies that enable physical locations, temporal boundaries and personal constraints to be linked, crossed and surmounted can be brought to bear on pedagogy and attainment. Luckin (2010) addresses this challenge and provides a model and design framework ...