By Rosamund Sutherland
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But, overall, I am convinced that my career as an academic has been inextricably linked to the potential that the computer and digital technologies have offered me and is also, in some ways, linked to the history of the development of the personal computer. This is a personal story of how I have used digital technologies to empower and liberate myself. All of us who exploit this power will have different stories to tell, which relate to our day-to-day lives and work. But the story of how I have embraced the digital could go hand-in-hand with the story of how I continue to value non-digital technologies, using a paper diary, doing rough calculations on the back of an envelope, reading picture books to my grandchildren, shopping in a market and travelling to meet people face to face.
By contrast, the majority of schools with a more middle-class student intake offered a subject-based curriculum. Whereas it is often argued that a skills-based approach is more similar to a primary school model and will support students in the transition from primary to secondary school, the two fee-charging independent schools in the sample offered a subject-based curriculum at the end of the all-through primary phase (age 9–11) within their schools. The difference in opinion about the secondary school curriculum also seems to mirror academic debate.
What is the difference between following a paper-based recipe for baking a cake and watching a Youtube video? In focusing attention on designed objects, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that humans are situated in social and cultural practices and that participation in these practices provides the fundamental mechanism for learning and knowing. What Pea, in the earlier quote, calls ‘people in social relations’ tends to be underemphasised in much of the discussion about the transformative potential of digital technologies and often seems to be ignored by those who design digital technologies.
